French FM says Iran nuke deal must be verifiable

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius says any nuclear deal with Iran must be verifiable, ahead of a meeting with Iranian FM Mohammad Javad Zarif.

“We think that we must be extremely firm and that, if an agreement is to be reached, that agreement must be robust,” Fabius tells journalists at a joint news conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who strongly opposes the deal currently on the table.

“That means that it must be able to be verified.”

European foreign ministers will meet Zarif on Monday, ahead of a June 30 deadline for an international accord on Tehran’s nuclear program.

Iran and the P5+1 powers — Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States — agreed in April on the main outlines of what would be a historic agreement scaling down Tehran’s nuclear program.

— AFP contributed

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