WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump’s surprise firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson by tweet today — just a few hours after Tillerson returned from a trip to Africa — threw yet another wrench into transatlantic consultations on Iran that had been gaining traction.
A US delegation led by Tillerson’s policy planning chief Brian Hook was slated to meet in Berlin on Thursday for the next round of consultations on Trump’s Iran demands between the United States and the three European countries, or E3, that helped negotiate the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, Britain, France and Germany. On Friday, the eight-member Joint Commission overseeing the Iran nuclear deal's implementation is supposed to hold its quarterly meeting in Vienna.
