Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney on Wednesday said a US-Iran deal to end the Middle East war could be a “game changer” in the region and beyond.<\/p>\n
There is “a likelihood that this memorandum of understanding agreement could be a game changer”, Carney told reporters on the third day of a G7 leaders’ meeting in the French town of Evian.<\/p>\n
He pointed to encouraging discussions, which included US President Donald Trump, on Ukraine and Lebanon at the summit.<\/p>\n
The Canadian premier said he noted a US “change in tone with respect to Ukraine” as Kyiv seeks to end more than four years of conflict following Russia’s invasion.<\/p>\n
This included “a more realistic — in our view — expectation of where this war was going to go, and the position against Russia, the tightening of sanctions against Russia, the ability to provide additional defensive support for Ukraine”.<\/p>\n
The leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Britain and the United States also held a “very detailed discussion about Lebanon”, he added.<\/p>\n
The talks on a final US-Iran settlement to end the conflict, triggered by the February 28 US-Israeli strikes on Tehran, are set to begin Friday immediately after the signing of the accord in Switzerland and continue over a 60-day window to flesh out its details.<\/p>\n
But fresh Israeli strikes on alleged Iran-backed Hezbollah sites in south Lebanon have dented the optimism surrounding the deal.<\/p>\n
“Yes, there are risks. Yes, the accord has to be put into place,” said Carney.<\/p>\n
“But the very fact of it — and the fact that so many countries were involved in its development and are vested in its development — does create knock-on effects, positive knock-on effects,” he said.<\/p>\n
In a joint statement late on Tuesday, the G7 hailed “the breakthrough and the opportunity that currently exist in the Middle East”.<\/p>\n
They said the memorandum of understanding “provides an historic opportunity to prevent Iran from acquiring any nuclear weapon and tackling the threats related to its regional and ballistic activities”.<\/p>\n
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