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France says it will not launch dispute resolution for Iran nuclear deal
French presidential election candidate for the En-Marche movement, Emmanuel Macron stands by the Wall of the Righteous (Le Mur des Justes) during a visit to the Shoah Memorial on April 30, 2017 in Paris. u00e2u20acu201d AFP pic

PARIS, July 7 — The French government will not trigger the Iran nuclear deal’s dispute resolution mechanism for now, instead giving itself one week to try to get all parties talking again after Iran decided to enrich uranium above limits agreed in 2015.

"It’s not an option at this moment,” a source at President Emmanuel Macron’s Elysee office said today. The dispute resolution mechanism could eventually lead to the reimposition of United Nations sanctions on Iran.

The French president today condemned the Iranian announcement, saying the decision was a "violation” of the agreement reached between Iran and world powers in 2015 to curb uranium enrichment.

Macron told his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani, that he would try to have all parties resume dialogue by July 15, a statement released late Saturday showed.

The statement did not mention what would happen if dialogue failed to resume by then.

The French presidency did not say whether its approach had been coordinated with other European governments.

Iran said today it was prepared to enrich uranium at any level and with any amount, in further defiance of US efforts to squeeze the country with sanctions and force it to renegotiate the nuclear deal. — Reuters

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