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reaching nuclear deal.
Then, at virtually the last minute, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius joined in the talks. It
didn't take long for the negotiations to unravel ... Fabius to publicly declare this round of
the talks to be over.
It wasn't the answer U.S., European or Iranian teams had been expecting. One Western official
said Paris ... primary European ally and -- after the U.S. -- arguably its closest friend in the world.
Fabius, echoing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is said to have had two serious
concerns with
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reaching nuclear deal. Then, at
virtually the last minute, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius joined in the talks. It didn't take long for the
negotiations to unravel ... Fabius to publicly declare this round of the talks to be over.
It wasn't the answer U.S., European or Iranian teams had been expecting. One Western official said Paris ... primary European
ally and -- after the U.S. -- arguably its closest friend in the world.
Fabius, echoing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is said to have had two serious concerns with
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reports blamed France for the failure to reach a deal after
Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius complained that the proposed agreement
was a "fool's game" just as negotiations were ... produce plutonium
— was easily resolved. Israelis and American lawmakers, however, have
happily embraced Mr. Fabius's outburst in pushing the United States and
its allies to take a tougher line ... talks unexpectedly fell apart at the last
minute when French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius publicly objected to
what he called a "sucker's deal," meaning the U.S. was prepared
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quiet two-
way negotiation on a six-month interim deal. Officials close to Laurent
Fabius, the French foreign minister, told me these bilateral discussions had
produced an agreed U.S-Iranian text ... mark the 40th anniversary of the formation of the
French Policy Planning Staff, Fabius dwelt on this perceived trend. "The
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United States seems no longer to wish to become ... place of the United States, this
disengagement could create "major crises left to themselves," Fabius said,
and "a strategic void could be created in the Middle East," with widespread
perception
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left the French to protect against a historic security blunder,
with Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius declaring in an interview
with French radio that while France still hopes for an
agreement ... under enormous pressure to go along with a
deal. We hope Messrs. Hollande and Fabius hold firm, and the
U.S. Congress could help by strengthening sanctions and
passing a resolution ... keep Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon? Not
according to French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who
said that the proposed agreement—to relax economic sanctions
while reining in only parts
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America's closest partners now talk openly of a
diminished US global presence. Laurent Fabius, the French
foreign minister, recently gave a speech in which he said: "The
United States ... have been vainglorious, but it also turns out to have been true.
As Mr Fabius, the French foreign minister, acknowledges:
"Nobody can take over from the Americans from a military
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must do more to try
and so=ve this crisis." French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius added to the cla=or on Nov. 8, telling reporters he planned
to call ... swift and
necessary" talks between President Francois Hollande and Obama. On=Syria, said Fabius, "The Americans have recently
been in the background = little."
Some hope that the =bama Administration
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