The P5 minus 1: Trump exits Iran deal
Iran and other world powers say they will try to preserve the deal without the United States.
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump announced today that he was withdrawing the United States from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and reimposing economic sanctions that had been waived in exchange for restraints on Iran’s nuclear program.
Iran and the five other powers that negotiated the deal — Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China — signaled that they would try to maintain the deal without the United States. But the three European leaders whose diplomats had been working intensively with the Trump administration to try to craft a compromise that would keep Trump in the deal over the past four months said they deeply regretted his decision and feared it could start to unravel global nonproliferation efforts.
“France, Germany and the UK regret the US decision to leave the JCPOA,” French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted. “The nuclear nonproliferation regime is at stake.”
“Together, we emphasize our continuing commitment to the JCPOA,” the British, French and German leaders said in a joint statement.
