The Guardian | Saeed Kamali Dehghan: Mohammad Javad Zarif says Europeans bowing to pressure in order to keep US in nuclear deal
Irans foreign minister has accusedEuropeof appeasing Donald Trump as the French foreign minister travelled to Tehran in an effort to salvage the 2015 nuclear agreement.
In an interview with an Iranian newspaper published before his meeting with Jean-Yves Le Drian on Monday, Mohammad Javad Zarif chastised European countries for bowing to pressure from Washington and said concerns about Irans missile programme or its role in the Middle East were hypocritical and dangerous.
In order to keep the US in theIrannuclear deal, European countries are resorting to extremism [we] will not remain indifferent, Zarif told the reformist Etemaad daily in a front-page interview printed under the headline Europe will regret.