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US withdrawal from Iran nuclear deal could lead to war: Macron
2018-05-05
[PRESSTV] French President Emmanuel Macron has warned that a possible US withdrawal from Iran's nuclear deal could lead to a war.

In an interview with Der Spiegel, Macron pointed to US President Donald Trump
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's threats to abandon the nuclear agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and said, "That would mean opening Pandora's box, it could mean war," The Hill reported on Friday.

"I do not believe that Donald Trump wants war," Macron added.

"My view ‐ I do not know what your president will decide ‐ is that he will get rid of this deal on his own, for domestic reasons," the French president pointed out.

Such a measure "can work in the short term but it is very insane in the medium to long term," he added.

Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations
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Security Council ‐ the US, La Belle France, Britannia, Russia and China ‐ plus Germany signed the JCPOA on July 14, 2015, and started implementing it on January 16, 2016.

Under the JCPOA, Iran undertook to put limits on its nuclear program in exchange for the removal of nuclear-related sanctions imposed against it.

Trump has described the deal, which was negotiated under his predecessor, Barack Obama
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, as "the worst and most one-sided transaction Washington has ever entered into," a characterization he often used during his presidential campaign, and threatened to tear it up.

Posted by:Fred

#7  Sarkozy lite.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2018-05-05 21:32  

#6  Just what I expected from this hypocritical French finook.
Posted by: Regular joe   2018-05-05 18:29  

#5  Of course *not* leaving it would definitely lead to a much worse Nuclear war. France should remember that it would not be outside Iranian missile range and Iran would not stop with the destruction of Israel.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2018-05-05 16:30  

#4  "French President Emmanuel Macron has warned that a possible US withdrawal from Iran's nuclear deal could lead to a war."

Well, okay then.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2018-05-05 16:04  

#3  These are Moslems we're talking about. The sun rising in the east leads to war...no could about it.
Posted by: AlanC   2018-05-05 15:54  

#2  The French think the deal was a surrender ending the war where as Iran thinks it is a cease fire for reloading.
Posted by: Airandee   2018-05-05 09:05  

#1  "My view ‐ I do not know what your president will decide ‐ is that he will get rid of this deal on his own, for domestic reasons," the French president pointed out.

i.e.: "He doesn't care about whether we and the Germans make Euros selling dual-purpose goods to the Medes and Persians"
Posted by: Frank G   2018-05-05 07:11  

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