{"id":13524,"date":"2018-04-26T05:41:11","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T05:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=13524"},"modified":"2018-04-26T05:41:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T05:41:11","slug":"macron-at-the-us-congress-will-not-leave-jcpoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/macron-at-the-us-congress-will-not-leave-jcpoa\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron at the US Congress: Will Not Leave JCPOA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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\nAddressing the US Congress, French President Emmanuel Macron said his country will not leave the Iran nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [JCPOA], amid US efforts to persuade European parties to the agreement to withdraw from it.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n

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\nSpeaking Wednesday on the final day of a three-day state visit, Macron said the JCPOA was not addressing what he called “all concerns” but stressed that the deal could not be ditched.<\/span><\/div>\n
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“We signed it, both the United States and France.”<\/span><\/div>\n

\n“We should not abandon it without having something substantial and more substantial instead. That’s why France will not leave the JCPOA, because we signed it,” he added.<\/span><\/div>\n

\nMacron, however, vowed that Iran will “never” be allowed to develop atomic weapons.<\/span><\/div>\n

\n“Our objective is clear. Iran shall never possess any nuclear weapons. Not now. Not in five years. Not in 10 years. Never,” Macron said.<\/span><\/div>\n

\nFor his part, US President Donald Trump has often vowed to pull his country out of the 2015 pact between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries, which was negotiated under his predecessor, Barack Obama.<\/span><\/div>\n

\nBack in January, Trump said it was the last time he was extending the sanctions relief for Iran as part of the nuclear agreement, giving the European signatories a May 12 deadline to fix what he claimed to be the “flaws” in the agreement or he would refuse to waive those bans.<\/span><\/div>\n

\nRelatively, Iran repeatedly warned that any failure to respect the multinational agreement would have grave consequences, stressing that there is no alternative to the nuclear accord.<\/span><\/div>\n

\nElsewhere in his remarks, Macron warned against a trade “war” between allies and asked for a free and fair global trade.<\/span><\/div>\n

\nHis remarks came as US trade sanctions on European steel and aluminum will enter into force in coming weeks unless Trump agrees to sign a waiver.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nSource: News Agencies, Edited by website team<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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