{"id":189465,"date":"2022-08-27T09:31:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T01:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=189465"},"modified":"2022-08-27T09:31:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T01:31:06","slug":"ball-in-irans-court-on-nuclear-deal-french-pres-macron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=189465","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ball in Iran&#8217;s court&#8217; on nuclear deal: French Pres Macron"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/assets\/news_photos\/2022\/08\/26\/image-79082-1661516778.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ALGIERS, Aug 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday the fate of a revived nuclear deal is up to Iran, and that an agreement would be &#8220;useful&#8221; even if it doesn&#8217;t settle everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asked during a visit to Algeria about the chances of success in reviving the 2015 agreement between Tehran and world powers, Macron declined to speculate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Now the ball is in Iran&#8217;s court,&#8221; Macron told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Momentum has built to revive the landmark agreement that gave Iran sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on its nuclear programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The parties to the 2015 deal with Iran saw it as the best way to stop the Islamic republic from building a nuclear bomb &#8212; a goal Tehran has always denied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former US president Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the pact in 2018, and reimposed crippling economic sanctions on Iran, which in turn began pulling back on its own commitments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just weeks after prospects of a revived deal looked dead despite months of talks, the European Union put forward on Aug 8 what it called a final text to restore the agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran came back last week with a series of proposed changes, to which the United States formally responded on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I think that it&#8217;s an agreement, if it is concluded in the terms which are presented today, which is useful,&#8221; said Macron, whose country is one of six which signed the original deal with Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is also &#8220;better than no agreement&#8221;, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;But it&#8217;s also a deal which does not settle everything. We know that,&#8221; Macron said, referring to Iran&#8217;s regional role and alleged &#8220;destabilisation&#8221; efforts. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALGIERS, Aug 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday the fate of a revived nuclear deal is up to Iran, and that an agreement would be &#8220;useful&#8221; even if it doesn&#8217;t settle everything. Asked during a visit to Algeria about the chances of success in reviving the 2015 agreement between Tehran and world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":189466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,215,209,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189465"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189467,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189465\/revisions\/189467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/189466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}