French officials are expressing hope that they will come up with a new
round of negotiations with Iran by July 15. The Iranian government issued a statement welcoming the French role in reducing tensions and trying to save the P5+1 nuclear deal.
French adviser Emmanuel Bonne, one of Macron’s top diplomatic aides, is
in Tehran, and has been visiting members of the Iranian Foreign Ministry
to try to work out details.
Iran has been soliciting talks by increasing uranium enrichment,
believing that they could no longer just keep waiting for EU nations to
follow through on sanctions relief. France has been the most interested
in working this out.
The US, who already withdrew from the nuclear deal, is trying to keep
the EU nations from delivering on sanctions relief, in an attempt to
kill the deal. Iranian officials say the US is practically isolated on the issue.
Hopeless. The same time France is talking, they’re pushing for convening the Joint Commission to get a ruling that Iran is in “breach” of the JCPOA, while ignoring Iran’s own formal complaint requesting a Joint Commission consideration.
It’s a setup, folks. The EU can’t “relieve the sanctions” – it has no power to do that regardless of what extra financial institutions it sets up. If you can’t force EU companies to do business with Iran, due to their fear of US sanctions, there’s nothing you can do to offset US sanctions.
The JCPOA is dead. Everyone is just going through the motions while the neocons have moved on to trying to get an actual blockade of Iran.
De Gaulle would’ve done it. Just sayin’.