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The United States has had "constructive" talks with France, Britain, and Germany about creating a side agreement to the Iran nuclear deal but is making contingency plans should the effort fail, the lead U.S. negotiator has said.
"We have had constructive talks with the Europeans towards a supplemental agreement, but I can't predict whether we will reach an agreement with them or not," Brian Hook, a U.S. State Department policy director and lead U.S. negotiator, told reporters on March 21.
"We are engaged in contingency planning," Hook said, without elaborating. "We are kind of dual tracking this."
He also dismissed Iranian concerns that Trump has yet to approve licenses for Western aircraft companies to sell planes to Iran as envisioned under the deal.
"I said to them, you use your commercial airlines to move terrorists and weapons around the Middle East, including to Syria, and we will not issue licenses at the expense of our national security," Hook said.
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