The G7 summit in Biarritz has led to a return of diplomacy to bring down tensions between Tehran and Washington. If the road could be long before a summit between Donald Trump and Iranian President Hassan Rohani, negotiating spaces are now open, thanks to the impetus of Paris.
By concluding the G7 summit in Biarritz on August 26th, Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump showed a satisfied face. Their bilateral relations have calmed down and the major diplomatic issues have been cleared up. The most spectacular advance concerns the thorny Iranian nuclear issue. The Trump administration had torn apart the 2015 agreement signed with Tehran and the 5 + 1 group (the United States, Russia, China, France and Great Britain – plus Germany), which allowed gradual lifting of sanctions against the Iranian regime, in exchange for an abandonment of the uranium enrichment program by the mullahs' regime. The rise of Iranian-American tensions in the Persian Gulf this summer has caused fear of uncontrollable escalation.
A surprise visit to Biarritz
But at the G7 summit, the surprise arrival of the head of the Iranian diplomacy Mohamed Javad Zarif allowed to revive the discussions. If the day after the summit organized in France, Iran called on the United States to "to do the first stepTo defuse the crisis between the two countries, that is to say to lift the sanctions, the prospect of a summit meeting between Donald Trump and Hassan Rohani is a sign of obvious relaxation to find a way out . Even if nothing is settled, this relaxation is the result of an effective mediation of Europe and France in particular explains us Thierry Coville, researcher at IRIS and specialist in Iran.
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