Macron says deal with Iran possible with few hours left to deadline

French President Emmanuel Macron has said that a deal with Iran was still possible, referring to a dispute between Tehran and E3 which was referred to U.N. Security council.

“An agreement is still possible. There are only a few hours left. It is up to Iran to meet the legitimate conditions we have set,” Macron wrote on X after meeting Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly.

President Pezeshkian in his speech at the Assembly, stressed that Tehran “has never sought and will never seek” to build a nuclear bomb.

Both he and Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi are in New York to drum up support for their nuclear programme and prevent a snapback of sanctions that were lifted in 2015 against it. 

Iran's Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad told reporters in Dubai that Tehran’s exports to Beijing would be unaffected if the “snapback” mechanism under the 2015 nuclear deal is activated on 27 September.

“They will continue, we have no problem,” he said.

A deal between Iran and Germany, France, and Britain to postpone the reimposition of U.N. sanctions on Tehran remains possible, but time is running out.

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