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Iran and France working on plan to salvage nuclear deal, Macron says | The Independent

France and Iran have agreed to work together to find conditions for resuming international talks aimed at saving the 2015 nuclear deal, French president Emmanuel Macron has said.Mr Macron said he spoke for more than an hour with Iranian president Hassan Rouhani on Saturday, and said they are trying to find a way to resume dialogue between world powers and Iran.It comes as Iranian officials get set to announce an increase in uranium enrichment to 5 per cent – an amount above the limit set by the landmark agreement.From extras.“The main announcement [on Sunday] will be the increase of the level of enrichment to 5 per cent percent from 3.67 per cent that we agreed under the deal,” an Iranian official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.The violation happens at a time of heightened US-Iranian confrontation, a year after Donald Trump pulled the US out the pact and reintroduced sanctions lifted under the accord.“The President of the Republic has agreed with his Iranian counterpart to explore by July 15 conditions to resume dialogue between the parties,” Mr Macron’s office said in a statement.