China to host Iran leader amid nuclear deal upheaval
President Xi Jinping will meet Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani together with Russia’s Putin on the sidelines of Shanghai Cooperation Organization 05/28/2018 BEIJING, China — Iran’s president will attend a summit with his Chinese and Russian counterparts next month, officials in Beijing said Monday, as they try to salvage the nuclear deal thrown into upheaval by US President Donald Trump. China, Russia and the Western European powers of UK, France, and Germany, all of which signed the 2015 Iran nuclear accord, are scrambling to save the pact following the US president’s decision to quit the agreement and reinstate sanctions. China’s President …