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Vive la France! Everyone else, led by Obama, is capitulating to Iran

Behind American and British optimism over Tehran's nuclear intent lies a startling naivety

16 November 2013

9:00 AM

16 November 2013

9:00 AM

President Obama’s flagship foreign policy of ‘leading from behind’ has had some surprising consequences. Not least among them is that France now appears to be leading the free world.

During the current set of negotiations in Geneva between Iran and the P5+1 countries, America, Russia, Britain, China and Germany seem eager to declare a breakthrough.

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