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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Patrick Wintour and Peter Walker in Banff

European leaders at G7 trying to bring Iran back to negotiating table

a group of people sitting in a room talking
Friedrich Merz, Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, Giorgia Meloni, Mark Carney and António Costa at the G7 summit. Photograph: Simon Dawson/No 10 Downing Street

European leaders at the G7 summit in Canada are trying to engineer an Iranian return to the negotiating table using Gulf leaders as intermediaries.

But Iran is demanding a joint ceasefire with Israel, while Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, is resisting the move, and Donald Trump praised the Israeli campaign, suggesting he did not yet believe it was time to relieve the pressure on Iran.

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