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FILE PHOTO: Iran's deputy foreign minister, Abbas Araqchi , with visiting senior French diplomat Emmanuel Bonne in Tehran, Iran, July 10, 2019. Nazanin Tabatabaee/WANA via REUTERS.
French President Emmanuel Macron paved the way at a G7 summit a week ago for a potential diplomatic solution to a confrontation between the United States and Iran brewing since President Donald Trump withdrew Washington last year from world powers’ 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran. “This is a breach in the U.S. maximum pressure policy and a success for Iran’s policy of maximum resistance,” he said.Since ditching the nuclear deal, calling it flawed to Iran’s advantage, Trump has reimposed sanctions to strangle its vital oil trade and force Tehran to accept stricter limits on its nuclear activity, curb its ballistic missile program and end its support for proxy forces around the Middle East.
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