The decision was made following a series of appeals and warnings from the American administration to the French, even though its declared title is "International Conference for Recognition of a Palestinian State."

France was involved in the ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah, after years of involvement in the region, including the maritime border agreement between Israel and Lebanon. French President Emmanuel Macron hosted at the Elysee Palace the (former?) terrorist Ahmed al-Sharaa (also known as Abu Mohammad al-Julani), who crowned himself president of Syria, thereby giving him a stamp of approval from the Western world.

On the negative aspects, Emmanuel Macron is among the more anti-Israeli speakers among European leaders regarding the war with Hamas, and he joined extremists from Spain and Ireland in demands to suspend economic relations and trade relations between the Union and Israel, including association talks that institutionalize these relationships.

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However, the international conference that Emmanuel Macron initiated in New York, whose purpose is, as mentioned, promoting the establishment of a Palestinian state, is one step too far even for the Americans. As part of preparations for the conference, held in cooperation with Saudi Arabia, the possibility arose that Western countries participating in it would declare recognition of a Palestinian state and its leadership – Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) and his government – as its chosen representatives.

American and Arab diplomatic sources confirm that the White House and the US State Department applied heavy pressure on Emmanuel Macron not to have this conference produce practical or far-reaching declarative implications. He initially rejected the pressure, and according to these sources, began checks with other European leaders regarding recognition of a Palestinian state, and apparently received approval from at least four countries for the possibility of joining such a declaration.

Here the Americans raised the tone, and in recent weeks, pressures reaching the level of real threats arrived at the Elysee Palace. According to an American source, in one of the conversations it was told to the French that if during the New York conference on US soil there would be recognition of a Palestinian state by even one Western country – this would be considered a personal insult to President Donald Trump. When the French response was not sufficient, the Americans made clear there would be a harsh response to this move.

Here they understood the situation in Paris and began trying to cut their losses. Among other things, they held conversations and briefings in Israel with journalists, and tried to emphasize the positive side and recognition of Israeli demands.

Mahmoud Abbas's letter

Israel Hayom published that France decided unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state will not be part of the summary declaration of the New York conference. A senior advisor on behalf of Emmanuel Macron presented to senior officials at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem the goals of the conference, and according to the advisor, the conference is actually intended to help Israel.

The advisor added that the vision of the gathering includes a demand for the release of the hostages, an explicit call for Hamas to be disarmed, clarification that it will not be part of the future rule in Gaza, as well as a commitment by the Palestinian Authority to stop terror salaries and incitement against Israel in textbooks. Emmanuel Macron's representative added that Arab countries that will participate in the conference will lend their support to these demands, and therefore this aligns with Israel's interests, which France, according to her, supports in its positions.

All these points are Israeli demands, which the Authority has already publicly announced its agreement to, and it demands the disarmament explicitly from Hamas. However, in Jerusalem they still believed there is a chance that Emmanuel Macron would not prevent sporadic declarations by some of the Western countries recognizing a Palestinian state.

The American sources confirmed that the pressure from the White House did its job. In addition, warnings were passed to several of the "suspected" countries as those who might recognize a Palestinian state. At least one of them responded that the UN building in New York, supposed to host the conference, is actually extraterritorial, and that it might not comply with the American demand.

Open to Israelis

The American pressure toward Emmanuel Macron's France also worked on other levels. Next week will open at Le Bourget, Paris, the International Air Show, one of the defense and civilian aviation industry exhibitions. As of now, dozens of Israeli companies are supposed to participate in the show, chiefly among them the three largest – Israel Aerospace Industries, Elbit, and Rafael.

This is one of the most important arenas, if not the most important, for promoting sales, mainly defense but also civilian, such as converting passenger planes to cargo. Thus, following the show held two years ago, deals worth more than $150 billion were signed during the exhibition.

Israeli industries attract considerable attention thanks to radar systems, air defense, missiles, and other various fields, and the Russia-Ukraine war brought enormous growth in demand for Israeli products. However, in France they tried to prevent the arrival of Israeli companies to parallel exhibitions in the land and sea sectors last year. In both cases, eventually, the arrival was permitted.

This time, following the American pressure, France did not boycott Israeli companies. There is an appeal to the court in France from anti-Israeli organizations, but so far no decision has been made to prevent the arrival of Israelis to the event.

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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is slated to spend the second day of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow in meetings with world leaders, including a first meeting with Bahraini Prime Minister Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa and a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with whom Bennett spoke briefly on Monday.

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Also on Monday, Bennett met with French President Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of the summit to discuss global and regional challenges facing Israel and France, especially Iran's rapid progress in enriching uranium.

Macron and Bennett agreed to strengthen collaboration between the two countries.

Aside from the Iranian issue, Bennett and Macron discussed the NSO spyware case.

Israel has been investigating whether cyber security firm NSO Group's Pegasus software, which can hack phones and according to the company is intended for vetted law enforcement and intelligence agencies, has been abused on a global scale. The Defense Ministry oversees exports of offensive cyber tools such as Pegasus.

In July, several international media organizations reported that Pegasus was used in hacking smartphones belonging to journalists, human rights activists and government officials in several countries.

NSO has rejected the reports, saying they were "full of wrong assumptions and uncorroborated theories." Pegasus was intended for use only by government intelligence and law enforcement agencies to fight terrorism and crime, NSO said.

Macron's phone was on a list of potential targets for surveillance using the Pegasus software by Morocco, the French newspaper Le Monde reported. Morocco has denied the allegation and said it did not possess Pegasus.

Macron has called for an investigation.

"It was agreed between the leaders that the subject will continue to be handled discreetly and professionally, and with the spirit of transparency between the two sides," an Israeli official said.

"It was agreed between the leaders that the subject will continue to be handled discreetly and professionally, and with the spirit of transparency between the two sides," the official said.

i24NEWS contributed to this report

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French President Emmanuel Macron's attorneys announced this week that he is planning to sue a billboard owner for depicting him as Adolf Hitler.

Several such images were placed across the southern province of Vaud as part of a broader backlash against Macron's coronavirus restrictions policy.

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One billboard in the city of Toulon portrayed Macron in a uniform as the Nazi leader, with a hairstyle and mustache similar to that of Hitler's. The swastika armband was changed to LREM – La République En Marche – the name of Macron's ruling party. An accompanying slogan read: "Obey. Get vaccinated." 

FLASH - Emmanuel #Macron dépose plainte contre le Varois à l'origine des affiches le représentant en Hitler. Michel-Ange #Flori, l'afficheur controversé doit être entendu dans le cadre d'une enquête pour "injure publique sur la personne du président de la République". (FrBleu) pic.twitter.com/i3KyReMiaT

— Mediavenir (@Mediavenir) July 28, 2021

Michel-Ange Flori, who created and distributed the posters, told French daily Var-Matin: "I was summoned by the local police. They confirmed that they had received a complaint from Elysee Palace [the official residence of the French president.] I was surprised and shocked." 

He later tweeted: "In Macron-land, [Charlie Hebdo's] showing the Prophet's rear is satire, but making fun of Macron as a dictator is a blasphemy." 

Born in Corsica, Flori owns 400 billboards through Var and has a history of controversies. In 2019, during the yellow vests protests, he was fined 30,000 euros ($36,000) for using his billboards to criticize police conduct. 

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French President Emmanuel Macron promised that "all will be done" to locate the perpetrators behind the graffiti, which was discovered on Friday in the village that has been maintained as a memorial and museum since it was burned down by the German army in June 1944, and 642 of its civilian residents were murdered, The Associated Press reported.

According to a separate report in the local paper, Le Populaire du Centre, the town covered the graffiti with a tarp that included the word "lie."

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"Shame on those who did this. Everything will be done to find and judge the perpetrators of these sacrilegious acts," French Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti tweeted on Saturday.

Reprinted with permission from JNS.org.

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The 5,000-square-meter (53,820-square-foot) space that was opened Tuesday is a place of exchange and boasts a synagogue with 600 seats and an exhibition center.

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Macron said "this center is an act of faith in the future."

It comes as part of a broader fight against rising anti-Semitism in France, the country with the largest Jewish population in Western Europe and one with a painful story for Jews during the Holocaust.

The center took over a decade to realize and was also given impetus because of extremist attacks in France, such as the killings at a Jewish school in Toulouse in 2012 and a hostage-taking at a Jewish supermarket in Paris in 2015.

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Fallout from the Sept. 14 attacks is still reverberating as world leaders gather for their annual meeting at the UN General Assembly and international experts investigate, at Saudi Arabia's request, what happened and who was responsible.

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The leaders of the United Kingdom, France and Germany released a statement reaffirming their support for the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which the US exited, but telling Iran to stop breaching it and saying "there is no other plausible explanation" than that "Iran bears responsibility for this attack."

They pledged to try to ease tensions in the Middle East and urged Iran to "refrain from choosing provocation and escalation."

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said late Sunday while flying to New York that the UK would consider taking part in a US-led military effort to bolster Saudi Arabia's defenses after the drone and cruise missile attacks on the world's largest oil processor and an oil field.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif denied any part in the attacks. He said Monday that Yemen's Houthi rebels, who claimed responsibility, "have every reason to retaliate" for the Saudi-led coalition's aerial attacks on their country.

He also stressed that on the eve of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's visit to the United Nations in New York City "it would be stupid for Iran to engage in such activity."

Zarif called it an attack "with high precision, low impact" and no casualties. In the refinery, there were facilities that would have taken the Saudis a year to repair, he said. "Why did they hit the lowest impact places?" Zarif asked, saying if Iran was responsible, the refinery would have been destroyed.

France has been trying to find a diplomatic solution to US-Iranian tensions, which soared after the Saudi attacks, and has carefully avoided assigning blame.

Earlier on his way to New York, French President Emmanuel Macron said he remained "cautious" about attributing responsibility for the attacks. There was no immediate explanation of why he later shifted positions and blamed Iran.

Macron said at a UN news conference not long before the statement was issued that he planned to meet separately with both Trump and Rouhani over the next day and would work to foster "the conditions for discussion" and not escalation.

Macron called the Sept. 14 strikes "a game-changer, clearly" but reiterated France's willingness to mediate.

Zarif, however, ruled out any Iran-US meeting. He said Iran had received no request from the US, "and we have made clear that a request alone will not do the job."

He said Trump "closed the door to negotiations" with the latest US sanctions, which labeled the country's central bank a "global terrorist" institution – a designation the Iranian minister said the US president and his successors may not be able to change.

"I know that President Trump did not want to do that. I know he must have been misinformed," Zarif said in a meeting with UN correspondents.

Zarif said he plans to meet Wednesday with ministers of all five countries remaining in the 2015 nuclear deal from which Trump withdrew, including Russia and China.

Johnson, the UK prime minister, said Britain still backs the existing nuclear agreement and wants Iran to stick to its terms but urged Trump to strike a new deal with Iran.

"Whatever your objections with the old nuclear deal with Iran, it's time now to move forward and do a new deal," he said.

When asked about Johnson's suggestion, Trump said he respects the British leader and believes the current agreement expires too soon.

The joint UK, France, Germany statement urges Iran to reverse its rollback on key provisions in the 2015 nuclear deal and calls for a new agreement.

"The time has come for Iran to accept negotiation on a long-term framework for its nuclear program as well as on issues related to regional security, including its missiles program and other means of delivery," the three countries said.

Shortly before leaving for the UN meetings Monday, Rouhani said on state television that his country will invite Persian Gulf nations to join an Iranian-led coalition "to guarantee the region's security."

Rouhani said the plan also encompasses economic cooperation and an initiative for "long term" peace. He planned on presenting details while at the United Nations.

Zarif said the new Hormuz Peace Initiative – with the acronym HOPE – would be formed under a UN umbrella with two underlying principles: non-aggression and non-interference. He said it would require a major shift from countries "buying" security from other nations or mercenaries and instead promote the notion that "you can gain security relying on your own people and working with your neighbors."

Johnson said he would meet Rouhani at this week's UN gathering. He said he wanted Britain to be "a bridge between our European friends and the Americans when it comes to the crisis in the Gulf."

Johnson stressed the need for a diplomatic response to the Gulf tensions but said Britain would consider any request for military help.

The Trump administration announced Friday that it would send additional US troops and missile defense equipment to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as part of a "defensive" deployment. Officials said the number of troops was likely to be in the hundreds.

"We will be following that very closely," Johnson said. "And clearly if we are asked, either by the Saudis or by the Americans, to have a role, then we will consider in what way we could be useful."

A UK official told The Associated Press that a claim of responsibility for the attacks by Iran-allied Houthi rebels in Yemen was "implausible." He said remnants of Iran-made cruise missiles were found at the attack site, and "the sophistication points very, very firmly to Iranian involvement."

The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence findings, did not say whether Britain believed the attack was launched from Iranian soil. Iran denies responsibility and has warned any retaliatory attack targeting it will result in an "all-out war."

Meanwhile on Monday, Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabiei suggested the release of a British-flagged oil tanker held by Tehran since July would be imminent, though he doesn't know when it will leave.

The Stena Impero has not turned on its satellite-tracking beacon in 58 days and there has not been any sign that it has left its position near the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard seized the vessel after authorities in Gibraltar seized an Iranian crude oil tanker. That ship has since left Gibraltar, leading to hopes the Stena Impero would be released.

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Hassan Rouhani's comments came a day after Trump said on Monday that there's a "really good chance" the two could meet on their nuclear impasse after a surprise intervention by French President Emmanuel Macron during the G-7 summit to try to bring Washington and Tehran together after decades of conflict.

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"Without the US's withdrawal of sanctions, we will not witness any positive development," Rouhani said in a televised speech on Tuesday, adding that Washington "holds the key" as to what happens next.

"If someone intends to make it as just a photo op with Rouhani, that is not possible," he said.

Earlier on Monday, Rouhani expressed readiness to negotiate a way out of the crisis following America's pullout from the nuclear deal.

"If I knew that going to a meeting and visiting a person would help my country's development and resolve the problems of the people, I would not miss it," he had said. "Even if the odds of success are not 90% but are 20% or 10%, we must move ahead with it. We should not miss opportunities."

Rouhani also shielded his foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, against criticism from hard-liners over his surprise visit on Sunday to France's Biarritz, where leaders of the G-7 were meeting.

Iran's English-language Press TV issued a vague, anonymous statement later on Monday, rejecting Macron's initiative.

Macron said he hoped Trump and Rouhani could meet within weeks in hopes of saving the 2015 nuclear deal that Tehran struck with world powers, but which the US unilaterally withdrew from last year. Under the deal, Iran agreed to limit its enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.

On Tuesday, Macron acknowledged his efforts to bring Iran and the US together are "fragile" but said that he still sees a "possible path" to rapprochement between the two.

Inviting Zarif to the G-7 summit as a surprise guest was a risky diplomatic maneuver but it helped create "the possible conditions of a useful meeting," Macron said.

It's France's responsibility to play the "role of the balancing power," Macron said, adding that his efforts allowed hope for a "de-escalation" of tensions.

Since the US pullout from the nuclear deal, Iran has lost billions of dollars in business deals allowed by the accord as the US re-imposed and escalated sanctions largely blocking Tehran from selling crude oil abroad, a crucial source of hard currency for the Islamic Republic.

Rouhani's U-turn can be seen as a result of pressure from hard-liners in the Iranian establishment who oppose taking a softer tone toward the West.

But it could also reflect that the paradigm of a grand photo-op summit does not necessarily appeal to Rouhani, whose signature accomplishment was the nuclear deal, which started unraveling with Trump's pullout.

The hard-line Javan daily, which is close to Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard, warned Rouhani in large font on its Tuesday front page: "Mr. Rouhani, photo diplomacy will not develop the country."

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"Zarif came to Paris on Friday with Iranian propositions which obviously must be refined," the French official said.

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"Yesterday there was a substantial discussion between G7 leaders and it is important to now update Zarif in order to keep closing the gap...on the conditions with which we could de-escalate the tensions and create breathing space for negotiations."

Flight tracking website flightradar24.com showed an Iranian government jet landed at Biarritz's airport, which has been closed for the duration of the summit from Saturday to Monday.

Iranian state television cited the foreign ministry as saying Zarif would not hold talks with US President Donald Trump's summit delegation.

Asked to comment on reports that Zarif had landed in Biarritz, Trump said: "No comment."

The office of French President Emmanuel Macron, who is hosting the G-7 summit, declined to comment as did the French foreign ministry.

Earlier, Trump appeared to brush aside French efforts to mediate with Iran on Sunday, saying that while he was happy for Macron to reach out to Tehran to defuse tensions, he would carry on with his own initiatives.

European leaders have struggled to tamp down the brewing confrontation between Iran and the United States since Trump pulled his country out of Iran's internationally-brokered 2015 nuclear deal and re-imposed sanctions on the Iranian economy.

Macron, who has pushed mediation efforts in recent weeks to avoid a further deterioration in the region, had told LCI television that the G-7 had agreed on joint action on Iran.

The French presidency said G-7 leaders had even agreed that Macron should hold talks and pass on messages to Iran after they discussed the issue over dinner at a summit in southwestern France on Saturday evening.

However, Trump, who has pushed a maximum pressure policy on Iran, pushed back.

Asked if he had signed off on a statement that Macron intends to give on behalf of the G-7 on Iran, Trump said:

"I haven't discussed this. No I haven't," he told reporters, adding that Macron and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe were free to talk to Iran.

"We'll do our own outreach, but, you know, I can't stop people from talking. If they want to talk, they can talk."

Macron, who has taken the lead to defuse tensions fearing that a collapse of the nuclear deal could set ablaze the Middle East, met Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Friday. The aim was to discuss proposals that could ease the crisis, including the idea of reducing some US sanctions or providing Iran with an economic compensation mechanism.

Macron appeared to backtrack on his own team's comments later, saying there was no formal mandate from the G-7 leaders to pass a message to Iran.

Highlighting just how difficult agreeing on concrete measures between allies is, Macron said the leaders' views had converged on not wanting Iran to acquire a nuclear bomb and ensuring peace and security in the Middle East.

He was supposed to discuss those ideas with Trump on the sidelines of the G-7, which also comprises Britain, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan and the EU.

"Everyone wants to avoid a conflict, Donald Trump was extremely clear on that point," Macron told LCI.

In response to the tougher US sanctions and what it says is the inability of European powers party to the deal – France, Britain and Germany – to compensate it for its lost oil revenue, Tehran has responded with a series of moves, including retreating from some of its commitments to limit its nuclear activity made under the deal.

The United States has made no indication it will ease any sanctions and it is unclear what kind of compensation mechanism Macron wants to offer Iran given at this stage a proposed trade channel for humanitarian and food exchanges with Iran is still not operational.

Macron has also said that in return for any concessions he would expect Iran to comply fully with the nuclear deal and for Iran to engage in new negotiations that would include its ballistic missile program and regional activities.

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After ramping up his high-risk trade war with China on Friday, Trump left for the meeting with his Western partners in the town of Biarritz threatening to impose tariffs on French wine.

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"Trade wars will lead to recession, while trade deals will boost the economy," EU Council President Donald Tusk
said as leaders of the Group of Seven (G-7) countries descended on the French resort town of Biarritz for a three-day summit.

"The last thing we need is a confrontation with our best ally the United States," Tusk said, adding however that the bloc would "respond in kind" to any new US tariffs.

In a televised address to the nation from Biarritz, French President Emmanuel Macron also stressed that his goal was "to convince all our partners that trade tensions are bad for everyone". And he vowed to work on "a real recovery" for the global economy.

"We have to achieve some form of de-escalation, stabilize things, and avoid this trade war that is taking place all over," he said. "We have to work for more growth, and more jobs."

France, in particular, was targeted by Trump just before his departure for Biarritz, when the US leader threatened to impose heavy tariffs on French wines in retaliation for a new French tax on large US tech companies like Google.

"Frankly, I don't want France going out and taxing our companies. Very unfair," he told reporters in Washington on Friday. "If they do that, we'll be taxing their wine or doing something else. We'll be taxing their wine like they've never seen before."

Wall Street stocks slumped on Friday after Trump escalated his trade war with China that is seen as a possible reason for the global slowdown.

The trade disputes have jumped to the forefront of this year's G-7 summit, with both Tusk and Macron also warning that any ambitious deal in the works between the EU and Latin American nations is now at risk over Brazil's response to an outbreak of wildfires in the Amazon.

"It is hard to imagine a harmonious process of ratification by the European countries as long as the Brazilian government allows for the destruction of the green lungs of planet Earth," he added.

Tusk added that the EU was ready to offer financial help to fight the fires.

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European leaders have struggled to tamp down the brewing confrontation since US President Donald Trump pulled his country out of Iran's internationally-brokered 2015 nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions on the Iranian economy.

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Tehran has responded with a series of moves, including retreating from some of its commitments to limit its nuclear activity made under the deal. With the accord on the brink of collapse, Macron said he wanted the summit to yield a clearer strategy on how to avoid a further deterioration in the region.

"In the coming hours before the G7 I will have meetings with the Iranians and propose ideas," Macron told reporters.

Leaders from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan and the EU will attend the Group of Seven meeting in the southwestern French resort of Biarritz.

With punishing US sanctions squeezing its economy, Iran is demanding that European powers that are party to the nuclear accord – France, Britain, and Germany – do more to protect the financial gains Tehran stood to make under the accord.

"We have made proposals either for a softening of sanctions or a compensation mechanism to enable the Iranian people to live better," Macron said, without giving more details.

The United States has made no indication that it will ease any sanctions and it was unclear what kind of compensation mechanism Macron was referring to.

Macron said that in return he would expect Iran to comply fully with the nuclear deal and for Iran to engage in new negotiations that would include its ballistic missile program and regional activities.

"We shall see what the response from the Iranians is in the hours ahead," Macron said. "And we shall see how the Americans are ready to move forward."

Trump's argument for pulling Washington out of the nuclear accord last year was that it did not go far enough to rein in Iran.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said earlier this week that he would meet Macron and French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian in Paris on Friday. Two French diplomats said a joint meeting was likely, but that it had not been made public due to the sensitivity of the Iran issue.

European powers have tried to set up a trade channel to enable humanitarian and medical commerce with Iran, but it is still not operational and will not compensate for the billions of dollars of oil revenue Iran will lose due to the latest sanctions.

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