Iran, France Talk Of 'New Era' In Relations After Historic Nuclear Deal With World Powers
Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press JULY 29, 2015 9:35AM
TEHRAN, Iran France sought Wednesday to relaunch diplomatic ties with Iran in the hope of boosting business in the country, following a key nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers reached earlier this month.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius called his one-day visit to Iran "an important trip" and tried to soften tensions created by France's hard line on the nuclear issue.
"It is true that in the past few years, for reasons everybody knows, ties have been weaker. But now, with the nuclear agreement, we hope that things are going to change," Fabius told reporters ahead of a series of meetings with Iranian top officials, including president Hassan Rouhani.
Iran's state news agency IRNA described the visit the first by a French foreign minister in over a decade as the start of a "new era" in bilateral ties. Rouhani told Fabius that the nuclear deal could "bring better relations with Europe," IRNA reported.
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Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)That is the truth.
cpwm17
(3,829 posts)pinto
(106,886 posts)Here's hoping for the best all around.
McKim
(2,412 posts)So if our Republican congress along with some Cowardly Democrats continue to fight against the agreement with Iran,, then other countries will get all the trade with Iran and build their economies. The sanctions are SO over. Those Rs. just want another opportunity to kick Obama and Kerry around. They are all bluster and no adult common sense. It looks good to their neanderthal supporters, but the whole world is laughing at us. Someday very soon the rest of the world will be moving around the US like an amoeba around a foreign object. Those sensible countries will make trade alliances and spend money on social goods for their citizens while people here go hungry.