The clock is ticking towards a May 12 deadline when Donald Trump will decide whether to pull the US out of the Iran nuclear agreement. 

Mr Trump has called the agreement “the worst deal in history” and threatened repeatedly to blow up the pact unless it is renegotiated and made significantly tougher. 

With the deadline looming, both America’s European allies and Iranian adversaries are scrambling to persuade Mr Trump not to pull the plug. 

A ticking clock

Under the terms of the 2015 agreement, six world powers – known as the P5+1 – the US, UK, France, Germany, China, and Russia – agreed to lift sanctions on Iran in return for Tehran curbing its nuclear programme ostensibly to halt a destabalising…

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