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The Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif's plane landed on Sunday afternoon in Biarritz. A theatrical visit that jostles the summit of the G7. According to Tehran, the minister went on site to continue to discuss with the French side ways out of the crisis over the Iranian nuclear.
The arrival of Mohammad Javad Zarif was not on the official agenda of the heads of state gathered in Biarritz this weekend. The Iranian issue was nonetheless one of the three hot topics at Saturday's dinner of G7 leaders, where the French president believed he had convinced his colleagues, including Donald Trump, to show a united front.
The surprise arrival this Sunday Javad Zarif at the height of the G7 summit should include "to take stock of the conditions we can have a de-escalation and a break, " announced the Elysee. Upon his arrival on French soil, Javad Zarif met with his French counterpart, Jean-Yves Le Drian.
The head of the Iranian diplomacy will meet neither Donald Trump nor any other official of the American delegation specified the French presidency, indicating that this visit took place on the initiative of Paris and not of the G7. Mohammad Javad Zarif was received Friday at the Élysée by Emmanuel Macron ahead of the G7 summit.