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What's Next For The European Union And The Iran Deal

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Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Over the course of the next few months, U.S. sanctions will again target Iran. That follows President Trump's decision to pull the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear deal. More sanctions are set to kick in this August and again in November. But in an effort to salvage the deal, Tehran called on Europe to provide a list of economic guarantees by the end of May, which is today. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports from Istanbul. PETER KENYON, BYLINE: Speaking to reporters last week in Vienna, a senior Iranian official said Tehran wants to see Europe's economic package right away but would give Europe a few more weeks to figure out how to keep the Iran nuclear deal alive without the U.S., which means defying American sanctions ordered up by President Trump. On one level, it's a heady political moment for Iran. Instead of being alone facing six world powers, as it was during the nuclear talks, now it's Iran and five world powers in favor of

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