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BEIRUT (Reuters)- President Donald Trump is expected to pull the United States out of the Iran nuclear agreement on May 12.

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WASHINGTON, April 25 - French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday called on the United States not to abandon a nuclear agreement with Iran until a broader international accord is reached that addresses all remaining U.S. and European concerns about Iran.

U.S. President Donald Trump has until May 12 to decide whether to restore the sanctions on Iran that were lifted after an agreement over its disputed nuclear program.

The sentiment on Thursday marked a shift from earlier in the week, when oil prices fell after Trump said the United States and France could reach an agreement «fairly quickly» on the Iran nuclear deal.

High on their list of points of discord are Washington's exit from the Paris agreement on climate change, the intention to scuttle Iran's 2015 nuclear deal, steel and aluminum import tariffs, allegedly tactless and unpredictable American policies, etc., etc..

No formal agreements were announced in the visit, although the two sides said they would work together on North Korea and countering its rapidly developing nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

If Iran and the United States finalize an agreement on the latter's nuclear enrichment program and lift an embargo against Iranian oil, we would see another increase in global supply.

Since the breakdown of US - Russia talks on the fate of Syria, Russia has pulled out of a nuclear - nonproliferation agreement with the US, citing «unfriendly acts» by America.

«Currently, all bets are off on the U.S. staying in the nuclear agreement,» said Tamas Varga of oil broker PVM, who added this concern was the most significant element of Brent's recent rally.

Iran has said it will ramp up its nuclear program if the deal collapses and a senior Iranian official said on Tuesday that Tehran might quit a treaty designed to stop the spread of nuclear weapons if Trump scraps the agreement.

WASHINGTON, April 24 (Reuters)- U.S. President Donald Trump warned Iran on Tuesday not to follow through with threats to restart its nuclear program, as he and French President Emmanuel Macron tried to find common ground on saving an international agreement on Iran's nuclear ambitions.

That is, Pyongyang will «launch a lengthy, complicated negotiation to get agreement on actions each party must take, and use this process to buy time for the development of the North's nuclear weapons program.»

Similar to Trump, Bolton has called the nuclear agreement a «strategic debacle,» and said in January on Fox News that the deal should be scrapped, sanctions reimposed, and regime change encouraged.

Trump has set a mid-May deadline for European powers to meet his demands on revisions to an agreement that would place limits on Tehran's nuclear program.

Trump's decision to impose duties on up to $ 60 billion worth of Chinese imports, for example, comes at a time when Washington needs Beijing's help to rein in a nuclear - armed Pyongyang, said Wendy Sherman, a former under secretary of state for political affairs at the U.S. State Department who was the lead American negotiator for the Iran nuclear agreement.

U.S. President Donald Trump has until May 12 to decide whether to restore sanctions on Iran that were lifted after the 2015 agreement over its nuclear program.

But based on appointments of ideological hardliners such as Tom Price (a staunch foe of Obamacare nominated to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services), Michael Flynn (Trump's national security adviser with a dim view of Islam) and Mike Pompeo (the incoming CIA Director who has fiercely opposed the Iran nuclear agreement) and many of his campaign pledges, the chances are high that Trump could squander his limited political capital on divisive ideological issues and neglect his most important priority — getting the American economy out of its low - growth rut.

ANKARA, May 3 - Iran's foreign minister said on Thursday U.S. demands to change its 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers were unacceptable as a deadline set by President Donald Trump for Europeans to «fix» the deal loomed.

The deal in question is the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, an agreement reached between Iran and six world powers in 2015 that placed limits on Iran's nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the United States could soon reach an agreement with France that would preserve the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the United States and France could reach an agreement to preserve the Iran nuclear deal «fairly quickly.»

On June 8, 2010, Uranium One announced it had signed an agreement that would give «not less than 51 %» of the company to JSC Atomredmetzoloto, or ARMZ, the mining arm of Rosatom, the Russian nuclear energy agency.

First, if the EU acquiesces on the nuclear deal, Trump will move on to target another agreement, and then another, and then another, until the very foundation of the current international order is uprooted.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo signaled on Sunday that President Trump was willing to walk away from the Iran nuclear deal even as European allies warned the agreement is the...

US President Donald Trump has until May 12 to decide whether to restore sanctions on Iran that were lifted after a 2015 international agreement over its nuclear program.

Iran's foreign minister said on Thursday US demands to change its 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers were unacceptable, as a deadline set by President Donald Trump for Europeans to «fix» the deal loomed.

This document would go beyond the Nuclear Cooperation Agreement to highlight specific areas of collaboration on nuclear energy, including research and development and the exchange of regulatory and operations expertise, amongst otherNuclear Cooperation Agreement to highlight specific areas of collaboration on nuclear energy, including research and development and the exchange of regulatory and operations expertise, amongst othernuclear energy, including research and development and the exchange of regulatory and operations expertise, amongst other areas.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is lobbying President Trump to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal in the Trumpiest way possible: by appearing on Fox & Friends, the president's favorite TV show, to urge the president to scrap the agreement.

Over the course of our conversations, I came to see Obama as a president who has grown steadily more fatalistic about the constraints on America's ability to direct global events, even as he has, late in his presidency, accumulated a set of potentially historic foreign - policy achievements — controversial, provisional achievements, to be sure, but achievements nonetheless: the opening to Cuba, the Paris climate - change accord, the Trans - Pacific Partnership trade agreement, and, of course, the Iran nuclear deal.

On Tuesday's broadcast of the Fox Business Network's «Cavuto: Coast to Coast,» former Senator Joe Lieberman (I - CT) stated that he hopes that President Trump pulls out of the Iran nuclear agreement when the deadline for the deal comes in May.

This situation need not be static, and the moment the nuclear powers reach agreement on arms control or disarmament the UN can assume new functions that might be the functions of an incipient world government.)

Perhaps the most important practical point is the need to assure the Administration of support if it does secure agreements on nuclear tests and the reduction of arms.

I am also encouraged by the historic agreement between the US and Partners on one hand and Iran on the other to curtail the development of nuclear weapons and encourage the peaceful use of nuclear technology.

«Whereas Iraq has consistently breached its cease - fire agreement between Iraq and the United States, entered into on March 3, 1991, by failing to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction program, and refusing to permit monitoring and verification by United Nations inspections; Whereas Iraq has developed weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and biological capabilities, and has made positive progress toward developing nuclear weapons capabilities» — From a joint resolution submitted by Tom Harkin and Arlen Specter on July 18, 2002

In the early 2000's, India and the US began working on an agreement which would allow India to begin working with the US to develop nuclear energy, with a good part of the rationale being that India has «de facto» status as a non-proliferation nation.

Iran is adhering to the restrictions imposed on its nuclear program under a 2015 agreement, the United Nations agency charged with monitoring the country's facilities has said in its first report since President Trump refused to certify the Islamic republic's compliance.

Trump will come under increasing pressure from visiting French and German leaders this week not to scrap the three - year - old nuclear agreement with Iran next month as American and European negotiators make tentative progress toward a new deal to toughen the limits on Tehran.

Trump is expected to end a waiver on sanctions for Iran, which will in turn endanger the nuclear agreement with the country that he has sharply criticized.

The Lib Dems are staunchly opposed to new nuclear energy and negotiated an option to abstain on the issue as part of the coalition agreement.

Schumer, who announced on Thursday night he would vote against the agreement to limit Iran's nuclear arms reached last month, should actively seek to block the agreement, Cox said.

Republican former Sen. Al D'Amato on Tuesday praised the Democrat who unseated him 1998 for opposing the the agreement aimed at curbing Iran's nuclear weapons program in exchange for lifting economic sanctions.

And George Osborne expects me to deliver our agreement on nuclear power, which is that there is an important place for new nuclear stations in our energy mix as long as there is no public subsidy.

Under the coalition agreement the Lib Dems can abstain in a vote on nuclear energy.

Stated opposition by Sen. Chuck Schumer to the Iran nuclear agreement doesn't go far enough, New York Republican Chairman Ed Cox said on Friday in a statement.

Former U.S. President Barack Obama, under whose administration the Iran nuclear agreement was reached in 2015, on Tuesday described President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from...

During an interview on his radio program with Rep. Peter Roskam, R - Ill., over the weekend, Kudlow said he would mount a challenge to incumbent Sen. Richard Blumenthal if the Democrat supports the international agreement with Iran over its nuclear program.

No - one who proposes this ever mentions how they plan to maintain flights from or to UK airports without an agreement on Open Skies, or transport nuclear materials without an agreement on Euratom, or get goods into and out of Britain without customs infrastructure in place on the Channel, or allow people to leave and enter the UK without an immigration system designed for them.

A $ 110 million agreement will transfer ownership and operation of the James FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Oswego from Entergy Corp. to Exelon Generation, company and state officials announced on Tuesday.

After his appearance in Syracuse earlier today, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he's been working hard to reach an agreement with the Legislature, but intends to get the best budget «for the people» by using the nuclear extender option, if necessary, because «the buck stops on my desk.»

«The UK is working to build a broad coalition of governments, international organisations, non-governmental organisations and businesses which share the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons and to forge agreement on how we will work together to make it happen,» the department said.