French President Emmanuel Macron has urged Iran to resume talks on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers but Iran’s new hard-line president, Ebrahim Raisi, says that Iran’s “rights” must first be guaranteed. Macron “called on Iran to quickly resume negotiations in Vienna to reach a conclusion and to put an end, without delay, to all nuclear activities that violate the agreement,” the French presidency said on August 9 after Macron spoke by phone with Raisi, who took office last week. According to the Iranian presidency’s website, Raisi said in the hourlong phone call that “in any negotiation, the rights of the Iranian people must be upheld and the interests of our nation ensured.” The nuclear deal was signed by Hassan Rohani, the relatively moderate Iranian president who could not seek reelection earlier this year after two terms in office. The accord, whose parties also included the United […]