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U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for a group photo at the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, June 16. AP-Yonhap<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France \u2014 U.S. President Donald Trump wraps up talks with world leaders at the Group of Seven summit on Wednesday where he’s been trying to sell his tentative agreement with Iran as a pact that will ensure the Islamic Republic never develops a nuclear weapon \u2014 even though he’s offered scant specificity about how that would be implemented.<\/p>\n

Trump and his fellow leaders are closing the formal talks of the leading industrial nations at a lakeside resort in the French Alps on Wednesday with sessions on the future of artificial intelligence and fostering economic growth.<\/p>\n

The U.S. leader also plans to make a stop for a glitzy dinner at the Palace of Versailles outside of Paris before he jets back to Washington.<\/p>\n

But first, Trump finds himself trying to quell skepticism about the Iran agreement, a difficult task given that neither the White House nor Iran have released the text of the deal. He also faces jitteriness from key ally Israel about ending the conflict under these terms.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a great document,\u201d Trump said of the memorandum that has yet to be revealed, even though U.S. and Iranian officials are set to formally sign it at a ceremony on Friday at a stunning resort on Switzerland’s Lake Lucerne.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere\u2019s what it says: Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. It won\u2019t have one to buy, to develop \u2014 it will not have a nuclear weapon. And I would say that\u2019s about 99.9% of what I wanted,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

But Trump will continue to have to do a sales job. Some members of his own party are doubtful that the deal he’s agreed to is strong enough to defang Iran’s nuclear program. At the same time, he faces an anxious international community looking for him to follow through on his promise that the deal will reopen the Strait of Hormuz to oil tanker traffic, and keep it open.<\/p>\n

What’s in the deal<\/strong><\/p>\n

White House and Iranian officials have sometimes offered contradictory interpretations of what is in the agreement.<\/p>\n

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In this photo released by the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, left, delivers a message from his nation’s Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif to Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, right, to be delivered to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, June 7. AP-Yonhap<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Israel\u2019s continued occupation of southern Lebanon, where Israeli forces have been targeting Iran-backed Hezbollah militants, would violate the deal.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the territories they occupied during this war, the war has not fully come to an end,\u201d Araghchi said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Trump told reporters on Tuesday that he did not think an attack on Hezbollah by Israel would necessarily sink the agreement, though he said he was \u201cnot happy with the way Israel has handled themselves with Lebanon and with Hezbollah.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just goes on forever,\u201d he said of Israel\u2019s strategy. Israeli strikes in Lebanon have killed nearly 4,000 people, including hundreds of civilians, and displaced more than 1 million since March 2. \u201cIsrael\u2019s fighting Hezbollah too long, and too many people are being killed,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

Trump’s relationship with Modi has been impacted by the Iran war<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump on Wednesday is also expected to meet with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a choppy moment in the U.S.-India relationship, in part because of the war.<\/p>\n

The leaders\u2019 meeting comes just a week after three Indian sailors were killed in a U.S. military strike on a tanker in the Gulf of Oman in the midst of the American blockade targeting oil shipments passing through the Strait of Hormuz. The Indian Foreign Ministry has formally protested the incident.<\/p>\n

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U.S. President Donald Trump, left, arrives for a group photo at the G7 summit as European Council President Antonio Costa, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, South Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung, Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and others look on in Evian-les-Bains, France, June 16. AP-Yonhap<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Trump and Modi had a warm relationship during the U.S. president’s first term, but it’s become more complicated since Trump’s return to office.<\/p>\n

The president hiked tariffs on India, before lowering them, over its reliance on cheap Russian oil, and the Iran war has disrupted energy supplies to India. There’s some angst as well in New Delhi that Trump’s recent efforts to forge a trade truce with Chinese President Xi Jinping could undercut India\u2019s appeal as an alternative manufacturing hub.<\/p>\n

Trump will also hold one-on-one talks on Wednesday with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, one of the three Middle Eastern leaders who are attending the summit at the invitation of its host, French President Emmanuel Macron.<\/p>\n

The G7 leaders met on Tuesday with el-Sissi as well as Qatar’s ruling emir and the president of the United Arab Emirates for a working lunch. They discussed developing energy supply routes out of the Gulf, including via Egypt.<\/p>\n

Before the Iran war, a fifth of all oil and natural gas traded passed through the Strait of Hormuz, a maritime chokepoint that Iran has effectively shuttered since the first days of the conflict.<\/p>\n

\u201cPart of the discussions were, \u2018OK, how can we imagine, finance, and build infrastructures, sometimes on the terrestrial part, that will be able to go outside of the track of the Strait of Hormuz?\u2019\u201d French Foreign Ministry spokesperson Pascal Confavreux said in an interview.<\/p>\n

Macron will honor Trump with a dinner at Versailles<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump on Tuesday didn’t hide his giddiness over Macron’s plans to fete him at the Palace of Versailles to mark America’s 250th anniversary next month.<\/p>\n

He said the opulent setting for the one-on-one dinner was a factor in his decision to extend his stay after the summit.<\/p>\n

The palace was the residence of French kings from the time of Louis XIV to Louis XVI. It regularly hosts heads of state and foreign dignitaries.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a fan of beautiful places, and I was leaving in the afternoon, and then the French president who happens to be a very nice man, invited me to dinner at Versailles,\u201d Trump said. \u201cAnd Versailles is not gold leaf \u2014 Versailles is the real deal. And I said I\u2019d like to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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