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Hariri to visit France Saturday amid Lebanon political deadlock
Nov 16, 2017 14:08Lebanese President Michel Aoun says Prime Minister Saad Hariri will arrive in France on the weekend as the Mediterranean country is teetering on the brink of a political crisis following his shock resignation announcement in Saudi Arabia earlier this month.
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Iran rejects France’s proposal for JCPOA renegotiation
Nov 11, 2017 15:42Iran has rejected French President Emmanuel Macron’s proposal to amend the landmark 2015 nuclear deal to cover the Islamic Republic’s ballistic missile capabilities.
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Macron says France disagrees with Saudi Arabia on Iran
Nov 11, 2017 04:41French President Emmanuel Macron has said his viewpoints on Iran do not conform with Saudi Arabia’s hardline stance vis-à-vis the Islamic Republic.
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Macron in Saudi Arabia for ‘questions’ as Hariri remains in shadows
Nov 10, 2017 03:31French President Emmanuel Macron has arrived in Saudi Arabia for hastily scheduled talks with the kingdom’s leaders about a puzzling political crisis involving Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, who resigned from his job in a live broadcast from Riyadh, where he is claimed to be held against his will.
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10 arrests in French, Swiss raids over suspected attack plot
Nov 07, 2017 13:35Ten people suspected of using encrypted social networks to prepare a possible attack were arrested Tuesday in counterterrorism operations in France and Switzerland, according to French officials.
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Peugeot delay to begin production perplexes Iranians: Report
Nov 04, 2017 11:38Paris-based PSA has yet to start production of the Peugeot 2008 in Iran despite the launch of an assembly line in the country seven months ago.
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Russia, France: Iran’s nuclear deal cannot be revised
Nov 03, 2017 02:22Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron have discussed the 2015 Iran’s nuclear deal over the phone, highlighting the need to implement the landmark agreement and protecting it from unilateral revisions.
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Iran, French officials discuss Syrian conflict
Oct 17, 2017 09:40Iran’s deputy foreign minister for Arab and African affairs has met with France’s special envoy for Syria, discussing the conflict in the Arab country.
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France says eager to boost economic ties with Iran
Oct 15, 2017 10:59France says it remains determined to expand economic bonds with Iran even in the face of recent US threats against a landmark deal that helped resolve disputes over the country’s nuclear energy program in 2015.
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4 killed in French military cargo plane crash in Ivory Coast
Oct 14, 2017 11:43Four Moldovan citizens were killed and two others were injured when a cargo plane chartered by the French military crashed into the sea near the airport in Ivory Coast's main city, Abidjan, on Saturday.