Al Mayadeen satellite television channel last week quoted some informed sources as saying that French President Emmanuel Macron has told Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani over the phone that Europe is ready to deposit $15 billion in INSTEX trade mechanism in return for Iran not to further reduce its commitments under the 2015 nuclear agreement. In other ways, he has tried to deceive his Iranian counterpart with an evil plot and an enticing visit with U.S. President Donald Trump. According to Al Mayadeen report, Macron had also said that  $5 billion of the proposed money will come from France and the rest from other signatories of the nuclear deal; Germany, the UK, Russia and China.

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The channel also claimed that Macron had also invited President Rouhani to attend the G7 meeting in France as a guest. It also underlined that Macron had told Rouhani that the meeting would be a good opportunity to meet with Trump in order that the U.S. would become unable to create any hurdle in way of Europe’s plan.

A couple of months ago Macron in an interview with France 24 had said, “Containing Iran is an obligatory policy and this is what I have always emphasized it. For me, strategy on Iran relies on four factors: saving the JCPOA; monitoring Iran’s nuclear activities after 2025; controlling Iran’s ballistic missile activities; and contain Iran’s regional activities. So, I have never been so naïve with Iran, and our difference with the U.S. is in our approaches to tackling the problem.”

Trump Administration’s senior officials have once and again underlined that the obvious breach of the JCPOA’s so-called sunset clause that over time were to lift the physical restrictions placed on Iran’s nuclear activities without containing Iran’s missile power and regional power.

Former British Foreign Secretary  and current Prime Minister Boris Johnson a couple of months ago and in an opinion piece published in New York Times called the restrictions against Iran in the JCPOA as “Handcuffs” and underscored that those handcuffs should not be broken. He stipulated, “The biggest weakness of the JCPOA is its sunset clause for 2015.”

So it is very clear that French President, British Prime Minister and Trump Administration’s officials have avowed that the U.S. and EU3 have common goal on Iran’s issue. The main goal of Paris, London, Berlin and Washington is nor administration of Iran’s rights in the JCPOA, nor lifting sanctions and nor economic facilities for Iranian people, but is just making the JCPOA a permanent deal and expanding losses resulted from the nuclear agreement to other factors of power in the country. Is not France itself one of those who owe Iran for not fulfilling its JCPOA commitments? A signatory who did not fulfill its commitments fraudulently. That the French try to round the Supreme Leader in the foreign policies via phone calls and that they, in a debtor position, try to act like a mediator for meeting with the most offender signatory of the deal, the U.S., is surprising and it shows their ingrate. May God help the government and its elements, who have usually been unreliable source in the foreign policy, would not disobey the policies of the Supreme Leader and they let only one person decide in the current climate and bring the sweet taste of resistance and united victory for the nation.

By: Hamid Reza Naghashian