Reuters - Germany�s top priority regarding Iran is to preserve the existing international nuclear deal, a foreign ministry spokesman said, as a May 12 deadline neared for the United States to decide on restoring U.S. sanctions on Tehran.

Spokesman Rainer Breul was responding to a question about French President Emmanuel Macron�s proposal that concerns over the agreement could be addressed with a supplementary deal, a suggestion that Germany would look at carefully, he said.

�For us, the position stays clear - the highest priority is keeping the nuclear agreement and full implementation on all sides,� he said.

�The nuclear agreement was negotiated with seven countries and the EU and can�t be renegotiated or replaced on a whim, but it is also clear that beyond the nuclear agreement we want to make sure that Iran�s nuclear programme serves exclusively peaceful purposes,� he said.


Reporting by Markus Wacket and Thomas Escritt; Editing by Richard Balmforth; Writing by Madeline Chambers