U.S. president may quit accord ‘for domestic reasons’: Macron Trump has set May 12 deadline for strengthening nuclear accord French President Emmanuel Macron said he thinks U.S. President Donald Trump will withdraw from the Iran nuclear accord, dealing a blow to the six-nation agreement reached in 2015 and endorsed by world powers. “My view — I don’t know what your president will decide — is that he will get rid of this deal on his own for domestic reasons,” Macron told journalists Wednesday in Washington, adding that he encouraged the American president to stay in the accord during his three-day visit to the U.S. capital. Emmanuel Macron at a joint meeting of Congress in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg “You will have probably, it’s almost sure, a period of tension in such a scenario,” he said. “We have to accept that because there is no other option, […]