Iran’s Nuclear Deal Deadline on Meeting Agenda

• Iran’s Nuclear Deal Deadline on Meeting Agenda
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  Germany’s deputy foreign minister says a deadline issued to Europe by Iran to safeguard its interests in the nuclear deal needs to be debated. Iran, Germany, France and the UK will meet on Tuesday to discuss the matter.
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  German Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Roth on Monday said that it would be “necessary” to discuss the proposed 45-60 day deadline Tehran has given Europe to provide “guarantees” to safeguard Iran’s interests after the US’ withdrawal from a nuclear accord reached in 2015.
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  It will be necessary to discuss “whether we really make progress with such dates and with such deadlines,” Roth said. Roth made the comments in Brussels ahead of a meeting due to take place there between Iran, France, Germany and Britain on Tuesday to discuss the nuclear deal. The EU’s top diplomat, Federica Mogherini, will also attend.
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  Following US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the agreement, an Iranian official was quoted on the parliament’s website as saying, “The Europeans have between 45 and 60 days to give the necessary guarantees to safeguard Iranian interests and compensate the damages caused by the US pullout.”
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  The comments were attributed to Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi as reported by Seyyed Hossein Naghavi, spokesman for the parliament’s foreign affairs commission. 
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  Europe will help Iran
  Roth said Europe was willing “to assume greater economic responsibility in Iran” if Tehran continued to follow the agreement, which is intended to prevent it from pursuing the construction of nuclear weapons. He also acknowledged that the US sanctions against Iran could affect European companies, which showed “how difficult” the situation was.
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