Trump Unlikely to Support Macron’s Plan to Revive Iran Deal

  • Plan would allow Iran to sell oil and come back to talks
  • French president pitched Trump on plan over impromptu lunch
President Trump and President Macron at the G-7 on Saturday.Photographer: Michael Kappeler/picture alliance via Getty Images
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French President Emmanuel Macron pitched U.S. President Donald Trump on a plan to end the standoff over the Iran nuclear deal -- by allowing Iran to sell oil for a limited period of time in exchange for returning to talks and to compliance with the agreement.

The proposal was described by a French official after Macron and Trump sat down to an impromptu lunch that stretched for two hours at the Group of Seven Summit in Biarritz, France. A senior U.S. official termed the plan a non-starter.