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Monday, July 2, 2018
Iran president flies to Europe to rally support for nuclear deal
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIranian President Hassan Rouhani is leaving for a visit to Europe billed as of “prime importance” after the US pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.
Rouhani is headed to Switzerland and is scheduled to travel on to Vienna tomorrow, where the nuclear deal was signed in July 2015.
The visit will be an “opportunity to talk about the future of the (nuclear) agreement,” Rouhani tells reporters at Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport, in images broadcast by state television.
“In the current context of the withdrawal of the United States… and the intense negotiations between Iran and Europe to find a way to preserve this agreement,” the trip “is of prime importance,” Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghassemi said Saturday.
— AFP
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