Paris, France – A couple of days after the United States and Israel launched their assault on Iran, French President Emmanuel Macron announced on March 2 that France would bolster its nuclear arsenal and strengthen ties with fellow European Union countries. In 1974, Iran expressed interest in France’s nuclear technology and signed an agreement where Iran became a 10 percent shareholder in Eurodif, a French uranium enrichment company. In 1986, a bomb exploded in Paris, killing seven people and injuring 55. Finally, the French government agreed to pay the majority of the Eurodif debt in exchange for the hostages in Lebanon in 1988. France signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, also known as the Iran nuclear deal, in 2015, which significantly limited Tehran’s nuclear programme in exchange for easing some of the sanctions on the country. But in 2018, Trump withdrew the US from the deal, and Iran resumed operations.