French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed on Wednesday that he believes United States President Donald Trump will rip up the 2015 joint comprehensive plan of action (JCPOA) regarding Tehran’s potential to acquire nuclear weapons, despite strong suggestions from world leaders to keep the deal and build on top of it.
« My view — I don’t know what your president will decide — is that he will get rid of this deal on his own, for domestic reasons, » the 40-year-old French leader told a crowd at George Washington University.
Macron clarified that Trump’s pending move will form part of a « strategy of increasing tension » with Iran, whose influence has grown considerably across the Middle East region during the past 20 years, despite the US military’s presence in Qatar, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Bahrain.
