French president Emmanuel Macron is stepping up eforts to prevent a further escalation in tensions between Washington and Tehran. But US actions and Iran’s response to them undercut potential mediation and continue to pose a threat to an unhindered fow of oil from the Middle East. Macron will host Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on 23 August, just ahead of the G7 summit in Biarritz, France. Paris and Tehran are working on a mechanism to ensure that “Europe starts complying with obligations they undertook under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [JCPOA] and their commitments since the US withdrew from the JCPOA”, Zarif says.
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