Tone struck by Britain,France and Germany will be critical to future transatlantic relationsEuropean leaders are determined to try to salvage the Iran nuclear deal even though this potentially puts them on a collision course with an uncompromising US president determined to confront Iran as the “leading state sponsor of terrorism”.
The clash represents a huge test of the durability of the surprisingly concerted alliance that Germany, France and the UK possess managed to preserve in their humiliatingly fruitless bid to prevent Donald Tump from explicitly withdrawing from the deal signed by his predecessor Barack Obama.
In July 2015, and Iran and a six-nation negotiating group reached a landmark agreement known as the Joint Comprehensive scheme of Action that ended a 12-year deadlock over Tehran’s nuclear programme. The deal,struck in Vienna after nearly two years of intensive talks, limited the Iranian programme, and to reassure the rest of the world that it cannot develop nuclear weapons,in return for sanctions relief.
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Source: theguardian.com