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next year, when the U.S. has
its turn to host the G-7, he
plans for the meeting to be
held at his Doral resort near
Miami. He denied that the
arrangement posed an ethi-
cal problem by using his gov-
ernment position to gener-
ate business for his com-
pany, and he insisted that he
has lost money by being
president but provided no
evidence.
An opening to Iran, if it
comes, would mark the be-
ginning of another high-
stakes foreign policy gambit
for the president. He’s al-
ready engaged in regular
meetings with Kim Jong Un
in an effort — so far fruitless
— to persuade the North Ko-
rean dictator to abandon his
nuclear weapons.
Last year Trump pulled
out of the agreement
reached in 2015 by then-
President Obama with Iran
and five other nations that
was aimed at preventing
Iran from developing nucle-
ar weapons. Macron has
been looking for ways to sal-
vage the deal, and Trump
appeared amenable to the
possibility during their joint
news conference Monday.
“I really believe Iran
could be a great nation, but
they can’t have nuclear
weapons,” Trump said. He
suggested that the United
States and European allies
could offer Tehran loans or
some other access to credit
as an incentive for reaching a
new deal and a respite from
economic sanctions im-
posed by Washington.
Trump listed his goals as
barring Tehran from having
nuclear weapons or ballistic
missiles and having an
agreement that would last
for “a longer period of time”
than Obama’s, which was
scheduled to restrict Iran’s
nuclear program for a dec-
ade.
That was a notably slim-
mer list of demands than
those outlined by Secretary
of State Michael R. Pompeo,
who has said Iran must with-
draw forces from Syria and
stop supporting militant
groups that target Israel,
among other steps. Trump’s
stance is also out of sync
with the hard-line views of
John Bolton, his national se-
curity advisor, who has sug-
gested that a change of gov-
ernment would be necessary
in Tehran.
Macron has been care-
fully maneuvering to broker
a meeting between Trump
and Iranian President Has-
san Rouhani. The French
leader had a private meeting
with Trump when he arrived
at the G-7, then extended a
surprise invitation to Iran’s
foreign minister, Moham-
mad Javad Zarif, to visit Bi-
arritz during the summit.
Zarif met with French and
other European officials, but
not with the Americans.
Rouhani appeared open
to the possibility of meeting
with Trump.
“If I know that in meeting
with somebody the problem
of my country would be
solved, I wouldn’t hesitate
because the central issue is
the national interests of the
country,” he said in a state-
ment posted on a govern-
ment website after Zarif ’s
meetings with the Europe-
ans.
A White House official
told reporters Sunday that
the U.S. delegation had not
been warned about Zarif ’s
arrival, but Trump insisted
Monday that Macron kept
him in the loop.
“I knew everything he
was doing,” he said. Macron
said at the news conference
that he had informed Trump
of his plans when the two
held a one-on-one meeting
Saturday. It’s unclear
whether Trump informed
his staff.
Julianne Smith, a fellow
at the Center for a New
American Security, a bipar-
tisan think tank, said Mac-
ron “found the right recipe”
to handle Trump and seized
an opportunity to influence
him.
“Macron is smart,” Smith
said. “He knows what he is
up against. But he also
knows Trump can be per-
suaded.”
Macron said the meeting
between Trump and Rou-
hani could occur within
weeks, and Trump said it
could happen “if the circum-
stances are correct.”
Trump could shift gears
depending on how much
pushback he receives from
both hard-liners in his ad-
ministration and allies, in-
cluding Israeli Prime Min-
ister Benjamin Netanyahu,
who’s facing a critical elec-
tion in three weeks.
Netanyahu fiercely op-
posed Obama’s negotiations
with Iran and has said that
his signature diplomatic ac-complishment was persuad-
ing Trump to abandon the
deal.
He was visiting Israel’s
border with Syria on Sun-
day, one of several places
where Israel has been en-
gaged in a series of skir-
mishes with Iranian proxies.
He released a terse state-
ment saying “Israel will con-
tinue to defend its security
however that may be neces-
sary.”
Michael Doran, a senior
fellow at the Hudson Insti-
tute, a conservative think
tank, said conversations be-
tween Washington and
Tehran could placate rest-
less European allies and
tamp down rising tensions
in the Persian Gulf region,
where Iranian forces have
been seizing and harassing
oil tankers.
“As long as they’re sitting
at the table and talking, the
Iranians have an incentive
not to escalate,” Doran said.
He was among many ana-
lysts, however, who doubted
that a deal could be reached,
especially as Trump is run-
ning for reelection next year.
“The Iranians are not go-
ing to make a lasting agree-
ment with Donald Trump
until after the election,” Dor-
an said.
Trump’s comments on
Iran came after days of sow-
ing confusion about the stat-
us of his trade war with
China.
On Friday, he “ordered”
U.S. companies to pull out of
China. On Monday, he show-
ered praise on Chinese
leader Xi Jinping.
“One of the reasons that
he’s a great leader, Xi, and
one of the reasons China’s a
great country is they under-
stand how life works,”
Trump said.
“China called last nightour top trade people and
said, ‘Let’s get back to the ta-
ble,’ ” he added. “This is a
very positive development
for the world.”
The Dow closed up about
1% on Monday, although
there was no confirmation
from Chinese officials that
such a call took place.
Trump’s version of events
has often conflicted with
those of other world leaders,
or even his own staff. Even
though he presented the lat-
est dialogue as a break-
through that could lead to
an agreement in days, talks
between the U.S. and China
were already scheduled to
resume next month.
Pressed by reporters on
whether a call from the Chi-
nese actually had taken
place the way Trump had
said, Treasury Secretary
Steven T. Mnuchin de-
murred.
“There were discussions
that went back and forth,
and let’s just leave it at that,”
Mnuchin said.
Trump continued to in-
sist that he was anything but
an outlier among the leaders
of the world’s most powerful
industrialized democracies,
while complaining about
news reports focused on his
disruptions at past summits
and on Macron’s efforts to
corral him at this year’s G-7.
But Trump was the only
one to skip a session focused
on climate change, a prob-
lem he’s downplayed or out-
right denied.
Asked later what he’s
willing to do to fight climate
change, Trump instead fo-
cused on developing fossil
fuel resources in the U.S., a
step that would generate
more greenhouse gas emis-
sions.
“The United States has
tremendous wealth. Thewealth is under its feet. I’ve
made that wealth come
alive,” Trump said.
He added, “I’m not going
to lose that wealth on
dreams, on windmills, which
frankly aren’t working that
well.”
In the one-on-one meet-
ings that are a prominent
feature of the G-7 schedule,
Trump has stressed areas of
agreement, often overstat-
ing the alignment between
him and his counterparts
while mostly ignoring evi-
dence of diverging views.
He claimed Sunday to be
“on the same page” as Japa-
nese Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe about North Korea’s re-
cent tests of short-range
missiles, even as Abe called
them a violation of United
Nations Security Council
resolutions while Trump re-
fused to accept that judg-
ment.
Trump also told report-
ers that some G-7 members
agreed with his inclination
to reinstate Russia to the
group, although he declined
to say which ones. Moscow
was expelled from the G-
after its 2014 annexation of
the Ukrainian territory of
Crimea.
German Chancellor An-
gela Merkel said Monday
that there should be talks
between Ukraine and Russia
to resolve the conflict there.
“We have to try to bring
this forward in the next few
months,” she said, adding
that “it’s a big problem, and
there are enough problems
in the world.”Stokols reported from
Biarritz, and Megerian and
Wilkinson reported from
Washington. Special
correspondent Noga
Tarnopolsky in Jerusalem
contributed to this report.Trump open to talks with Iran
PRESIDENT Trump and French counterpart Emmanuel Macron hold a news conference on the final day of
the Group of 7 summit in Biarritz, France. Trump defended his approach to the U.S. trade war with China.Bertrand GuayAFP/Getty Images[G-7,from A1]
PORTO VELHO, Brazil
— The Group of 7 nations on
Monday pledged tens of mil-
lions of dollars to help fight
raging wildfires in the Ama-
zon and protect its rainfor-
est, even as Brazilian Presi-
dent Jair Bolsonaro accused
rich countries of treating the
region like a “colony.”
The international
pledges at a G-7 summit in
France included $20 million
from the group, as well as a
separate $12 million from
Britain and $11 million from
Canada. Ottawa has also of-
fered to send firefighting
planes to Brazil.
Other groups are con-
tributing support for a re-
gion whose rainforests are
a major absorber of carbon
dioxide from the atmos-
phere. Earth Alliance, a new
environmental foundation
backed by Leonardo Di-
Caprio, is pledging $5 mil-
lion in aid, saying the Ama-
zon is one of the “best de-
fenses” against climate
change.
The funds are widely seen
as critical support, but a
relatively small amount for
dealing with a crisis of
such scale threatening what
French President Emman-
uel Macron called “the lungs
of the planet.”
More than $1 billion, for
example, has been paid into
a fund to help the Amazon in
the last decade. And major
donors Germany and Nor-
way recently cut donations
to Brazilian forestry proj-
ects, saying Bolsonaro’s ad-
ministration isn’t commit-
ted to curbing deforestation.
It was unclear how ex-
actly the new money would
be administered. Bureau-
cracy can slow and reduce
the amount that reaches
programs in the field.
Brazil’s environment min-
ister, Ricardo Salles, said
that the aid was welcome
and that Brazil should de-
cide how the resources are
used.
More global funding and
political will in Brazil will be
needed once the fires are ex-
tinguished, said John Rob-
inson of the Wildlife Conser-
vation Society.
The pledges came de-
spite tensions between Eu-
ropean countries and the
Brazilian president, who
suggested the West was an-
gling to exploit Brazil’s natu-
ral resources. “Look, does
anyone help anyone without
something in return? What
have they wanted there for
so long?” Bolsonaro said.Nations
pledge
Amazon
fire aid
G-7 group promises
$20 million. Britain
offers $12 million andCanada $11 million.
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