29 Mar 2024
Wednesday 26 September 2018 - 16:25
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Macron wants Iran to sell oil, urges dialogue

Bourse and Bazaar | AFP: French PresidentEmmanuel Macron saidTuesdaythat Iran should be allowed to keep selling oiland urged dialogue as he rejected a US push to isolate the clerical regime.

Speaking to reporters after addressing the United Nations General Assembly,Macron said that Iranian sales would bring down the price of oilaprofessed concern of US President Donald Trump.

"It would be good for the price of oil for Iran to be able to sell it. It'sgood for peace and it's good for the shape of the international price of oil,"Macron said.

France and other European powers are setting up a way to allow businessesto keep doing business in Iran in hopes of avoiding sanctions by the UnitedStates, which has withdrawn from the 2015 nuclear deal.

Addressing world leaders shortly after Trump, the French president creditedthe accord with curbing the nuclear program of Iran.

What will bring a real solution to the situation in Iran and what hasalready stabilized it? The law of the strongest? Pressure from only one side?No!" Macron said in his address.

"We know that Iran was on a nuclear military path but what stopped it? The2015 Vienna accord."

Trump has withdrawn from the seven-nation agreement negotiated under hissuccessor Barack Obama, calling it a "disaster" and instead ramping uppressure on Iran including through renewed sanctions.

Supported by Israel and Saudi Arabia, Trump has sought to roll back Iranianinfluence around the Middle East, including in war-ravaged Syria.

But Macron said: "We should not aggravate regional tensions but ratherthrough dialogue and multilateralism pursue a broader agenda that allows us toaddress all the concerns caused by Iranian policiesnuclear, ballistic,regional."
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