2018 Vahid Salemi AP Alexander Maryasov
"The two leaders looked forward to the summit which will take place between President Trump and Kim Jong-un in Singapore", the spokesperson said, adding that Britain would continue to work with the United States to keep up the pressure for denuclearisation of North Korea.
Speaking at a news conference in Paris on Friday, Le Maire added that Paris and its European allies are drawing up plans to submit proposals to the European Commission aimed at strengthening Europe's capacity to defend its economic interests.
The latest globally destabilising lurch by his administration came this past Tuesday when he said that Washington would begin reinstating sanctions on Iran, thus unravelling an historic agreement crafted by the U.S. and other powers in 2015 aimed at persuading Tehran to curb its nuclear programme.
That is part of a flurry of diplomatic activity following Tuesday's unilateral withdrawal from what US President Donald Trump called "a frightful, one-sided deal", a move accompanied by the threat of penalties against any foreign firms doing business in Iran.
Donald Trump ignored the persistent calls of leaders of the European countries - participants in the JCPOA - not to quit the nuclear deal with Iran, as well as the opinion of a significant part of the American establishment: the withdrawal from the JCPOA ruins the global control over Tehran's nuclear activities, prestige, trust and the U.S. negotiability, leads to further crises in the Middle East.
"Do we accept extraterritorial sanctions?"
He said he told U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin that if he doesn't exempt the French companies, he should consider a so-called grandfather clause for deals struck in Iran since 2015 or an extension of the 90-day period the Treasury Department has set to wind down operations in Iran.
The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights said Saturday that 11 Iranians were among the pro-regime fighters killed in strikes by Israel, which has vowed to prevent Iran gaining a military foothold in neighboring Syria.
May raised the potential impact of USA sanctions on those firms which were now conducting business in Iran.
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Putin, as one of the few leaders who has good relations and significant influence with both Israel and Iran , urged restraint. Three people were killed by the missiles, a spokesman said . "If Iran had done it, we would have announced it immediately".
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The MP Board conducted the Class 10 exam from March 5 to 31 while the exam for Class 12 were held from March 1 to April 3, 2018. There are several websites to check the results as the official website is expected to remain slow on the date of announcement.
Europe has limited opportunity to preserve nuclear deal, Rouhani tells Macron
When pressed again by the reporter, Trump said , "I would advise Iran not to start their nuclear program ". Trump's decisions on Russian Federation and now on Iran has put India on horns of dilemma.
In 2015, Tehran signed a deal with the US, China, Russia, Germany, France and Britain agreeing to limit its nuclear activities in return for the lifting of crippling economic sanctions. Europeans fear a collapse of the deal could intensify conflicts in the Middle East.
"The extent to which we can keep this deal alive.is something we need to discuss with Iran", said Merkel, who earlier spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the issue.
His remarks drew chants of "Death to America!" from those gathered for Friday prayers in Tehran. Experts say today, Iran remains at least a year away from being able to build an atomic bomb, something Tehran denies having any desire to do.
French exports to Iran doubled to 1.5 billion euros ($1.79 billion) previous year, driven by sales of aircraft and automobile parts, according to customs data.
Exports of German goods to Iran rose by around 400 million euros to 3 billion euros.
A telephone survey of 1,003 Iranians conducted in April by IranPoll, a Toronto-based firm, found 67 percent of respondents felt the country should "retaliate" if the USA violated the nuclear deal.
"We are ready to talk to all the companies concerned about what we can do to minimize the negative consequences" of the USA sanctions, German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier told Deutschlandfunk radio.
"It's concretely about damage limitation", German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier said on German radio. Fundamentally, they acknowledge, most businesses have ties to the US that dwarf new revenue to be won from plunging into the Iranian market. "Do they want to do business with a threat?" he asked. He was quoted by Germany's Bild newspaper as saying firms should question the morality of doing business with Iran.
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