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Iran Rejects Macron's Call For New Nuclear Deal If deal is to be saved, US should return, lift sanctions on Tehran, says foreign ministry. Iran on Saturday dismissed the French president's remarks on the need for a new nuclear deal with Tehran. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said the nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, is "a multilateral international agreement that has been endorsed and stabilized by the (UN) Security Council Resolution 2231. It is by no means re-negotiable, and ...

Said, you know, he outsmarted the former president. everyone there, all of those leaders know that it is not true. i'm just wondering what does it do to our credibility. do we have any credibility left with allies because they know they're like, this man is saying something that's totally not true. either he's doing it on purpose or he's ignorant to the facts. >> so we increasingly have very good reporting that says a lot of president trump's senior staff essentially manage him. i mean i hate to say this, but almost like he's a petulant adolescent, somebody who has to be managed. you have to m...

Brexit situation, where president trump is refusing to play the role of western leader, macron's tried to step into that void. certainly in leading the european union through its thicket of troubles, and this is ironic, to shore up nato and the base of support for nato and european defense, and very much the global leader in many ways in arguing for action on climate change. if macron is weakened, there aren't a lot of candidates in the west who play this role. the other existential question we're facing is a battle of ideas and you can see the self-confidence that xi jinping has, that putin h...

So you have to then wonder what was in his heart? what was in his mood? what was in his spirit? having said that, i want to descend a little from the notion that macron's, you know, speech really told trump off brilliantly. i think the central point that everybody's quoting which is that nationalism is the opposite of patriotism is nonsense. nationalism is patriotism taken to an extreme in a way that, you know, creates blowback against -- can create blowback against the country one is being nationalist or patriotic toward. i think some of the themes that were evoked, that is this notion that m...

Persuading trump not to pull troops out as french fighter jets flew alongside british and american planes in suspected chemical weapons centers. >> joining us now, john har wood and jane harmon, the president and ceo of the woodrow wilson center. jane, one of the things we listed was the iran deal. to us that seems like it has to be on macron's, top of his to do list. what do you think? >> i think it is on the top of his to do list, and i think ang will merkel when she comes friday after macron leaves will raise the same subject. europe does not want us out of the deal. and frankly, i think it...