Before Rare Address To US Congress, Macron Gets 3-Minute Standing Ovation

Macron added: “What we decided, together with your president, is that we can work on a more comprehensive deal addressing all these concerns”.

The French leader’s feisty speech to lawmakers was a dramatic twist near the end of a three-day visit that had showcased his warm personal relationship with Trump, despite the gulf between their visions of world affairs.

Under the deal, Iran agreed to curb its nuclear ambitions in return for relief from economic sanctions.

Pompeo spoke at a news conference after a day of meetings with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation foreign ministers, including a session with his counterparts from Britain, France and Germany – the European architects of the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement, called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. “It’s an honor to call you my friend”, Trump said, after predicting Macron would be a historic leader of France.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani rejected any hopes of rewriting a nuclear deal with world powers Wednesday, while his French counterpart vowed to U.S. lawmakers that everything would be done to stop Iran ever acquiring atomic weapons. That’s my view. I don’t have any specific information, I’m not an insider.

Trump told France’s President Emmanuel Macron at the White House on Tuesday that they were “close to understanding each other” on the 2015 pact, two weeks ahead of a decision by Trump whether to stick with it or withdraw.

One Iranian who is well-versed in the issues made an interesting observation about why the nuclear deal has had so many critics in both Washington and Tehran. It’s ridiculous. It should have never been made. Trump said he and Pompeo are much more “on the same wavelength” on Iran and other issues. “It was a awful deal”.

USA allies have since dealt with this problem in a number of ways.

Despite these remarks, it is not clear how Trump is planning to reengage Iran on the nuclear question.

Trump said before an audience of US soldiers and members of his Cabinet that the relationship he forged with Macron at the start of his presidency was a testament to the “enduring friendship that binds our two nations”. “This requires more than ever the United States involvement”, he said.

“I think the main thing I can take from my experience from him yesterday was how accessible and willing he seemed”, said Anahi.

Russian Federation and China wouldn’t really care if Iran’s ballistic missile program were interfered with, but Russian Federation does want to sell Iran anti-missile missiles and wouldn’t want any agreement that forestalled those sales.

He will have to quickly address a wide array of pressing worldwide issues, including long conflicts in Syria and Afghanistan, as well as Russian assertiveness.

The French President also called on the U.S. to make efforts to curb “fake news”, which he said was a “problem” in the country, according to the report.

This viewpoint resonates well with that of Russian Federation – which is among those countries that have actively worked to convince US President Donald Trump not to reverse the landmark 2015 deal. “I believe that what we should be doing is to try to find an efficient way to build this genuine multilateralism”.

French President Emmanuel Macron received a warm, three-minute standing ovation from USA lawmakers Wednesday before delivering – in English – a rare address to Congress, urging America to help “reinvent multilateralism”.