In a phone call with his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi, Macron justified this by making tangible progress quickly, as the Elysée Palace announced on Sunday after the conversation held on Saturday.
Any agreement requires clear and sufficient commitments from all parties, which France is working on with all its partners, it said. After the international nuclear talks with Iran had been interrupted for several months, negotiations resumed at the end of November 2021.
Germany, France and the UK, along with Russia and China, have been mediating between Iran and the United States for months to salvage the 2015 deal. The aim is to lift US economic sanctions and, in return, to get Iran to comply with the nuclear deal again. The aim is to prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons.