Trump Says it's Too Soon to Meet Iran FM
US President Donald Trump has said it was "too soon" for him to meet Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who made a surprise visit to the G7 meeting in France following an invitation by French President Emmanuel Macron, Al-Jazeera reports.
Macron has been trying to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal between the US, Europe, Iran and Russia after Trump pulled out of the deal last year. But Trump told reporters at the G7 meeting on Monday that he was not surprised at France inviting Zarif.
"I knew he was coming," Trump said of the visit. "I knew everything he [Macron] was doing and I approved everything he was doing," Trump said, adding the French president "asked for my approval".
The US president did say, however, he did not think the time was right yet for him to sit with Zarif.
"It's too soon to meet, I didn't want to," Trump said, adding that he wants to see a "strong Iran" and that he was not looking for regime change in the country.
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