France urged the European Union to consider new sanctions on Iran over its involvement in Syria’s civil war and its ballistic missile program, as Paris tries to persuade Washington to preserve the nuclear agreement with Tehran. Speaking at a European Union Foreign Ministers meeting, France’s top diplomat Jean-Yves Le Drian emphasized Paris’ was determined to ensure that the nuclear accord is respected but asserted that Tehran’s destabilizing role in the Middle East and its ballistic missile program must be met with force. “We are absolutely committed to ensure that the (2015) Vienna agreements (Iran’s nuclear program) are respected. We must react with force in this subject, but we must not exclude Iran’s responsibility in the proliferation of ballistic missiles and its very questionable role in all of the Middle East,” Jean-Yves Le Drian, French Foreign Minister.
The United States has had “very good” talks with its European allies, including France, Britain and Germany, on President Donald Trump’s demand to amend the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran. “What the president (U.S. President Donald Trump) has asked us to do is to work with our European allies and see if we can come to an agreement before May 12 and we don’t have any instructions beyond May 12.” / “This is the third meeting that we have had with the E3, (we) had very good discussions. There is a lot that we agree on and where we disagree we are working to bridge our differences,” U.S. Envoy for talks on the nuclear agreement Brian Hook said.
President Trump has threatened to withdraw the United States from the agreement between Tehran and the P5+1, which included the U.S. under the Obama Administration, Russia, China, France, Britain plus Germany, unless France, Britain and Germany help improve the deal’s flaws by a deadline set on the 12th of May.