The JCPOA was signed between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council -- the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China -- plus Germany in 2015. . US President Donald Trump announced in May that Washington was pulling out of the nuclear agreement, which lifted..…

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He urged Washington instead to try to expand the treaty, by bringing in China. “No way European allies like Germany could live through another I.N.F.” deployment, he wrote on Twitter, “a la 1980s: that road is closed.” . ..…

A Feb. 15, 2017, Politico article reported on the “peculiar alliance” forming between Germany and China: “The partnership is partly intended to signal to Washington, D.C., that, in the face of the White House’s rising economic nationalism, deals without the U.S. will become more..…