Iran’s Zarif Leaves G7 Talks Without Audience With Trump

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at a joint press conference with European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini in Tehran, Iran, on July 28, 2015. Vahid Salemi/AP Photo

BIARRITZ, France—Iran’s foreign minister made a flying visit for talks with host France at the G7 summit on Sunday, as Paris ramped up efforts to ease tensions between Tehran and Washington.

European leaders have struggled to tamp down the brewing confrontation between Iran and the United States since Trump pulled Washington out of Iran’s internationally-brokered 2015 nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions on the Iranian economy.