France warns Iran against making nuclear talks a 'sham'
Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian also said France had yet to determine whether Iran was ready to pick up where the talks left off in June.
France warned Iran on Friday against staging “sham” talks when world powers resume negotiations on the landmark nuclear deal in Vienna later this month.
France, Iran and the other signatories to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, are set to resume negotiations over the landmark nuclear accord in the Austrian capital on Nov. 29. They’re the first such talks since the election of hardline Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi in June.
Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told Le Monde that France needed to determine whether the talks would pick up where they left off this summer.
"If this discussion is a sham, then we will have to consider the JCPOA empty," he told the French newspaper in an interview published Friday.
