BICOM
3rd March 2021
Reuters reports that France and its Western allies plan to lodge a protest with the UN’s nuclear watchdog to criticise Iran’s decision to curb cooperation with the agency, the French foreign minister said on Tuesday. The decision came as French President told Iranian President Hassan Rouhani that Tehran must make clear and immediate gestures to allow dialogue to resume on the 2015 nuclear deal.
The
Telegraph follows the fallout in Israel over the Supreme Court’s decision ending an Orthodox monopoly on Jewish conversions. The paper writes that backlash from Israeli religious leaders, including key election allies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, could create political complications for Netanyahu, who has no clear path to re-election without the ironclad support of religious parties.