IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL

President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron called for a new nuclear deal with Iran — as the US leader slammed the 2015 accord as “insane” and “ridiculous.”

“We could have at least an agreement among ourselves fairly quickly,” Trump said Tuesday at a joint press conference with the French leader at the White House. “I think we’re fairly close to understanding each other. And I think our meeting, our one-on-one, went very, very well.”

The president earlier in the day slammed Iran for threatening to restart its nuclear program if the US and France failed to salvage the accord.

“They’re not going to be restarting anything,” Trump said. “If they restart it, they’re going to have big problems, bigger than they ever had before. And you can mark it down.”

During the press conference, the president also said both countries “agree that Iran cannot be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon.”

Macron said he and Trump held “very frank discussions” on the deal among Iran, the United States, France, Germany, Britain, Russia, China and the European Union.

“We, therefore, wish from now on to work on a new deal with Iran,” Macron said.

He stressed such a deal would have to address several issues, including blocking any Iranian nuclear activity until 2025, putting an end to Iranian ballistic-missile activity and finding a political solution to contain Iran in the region.

Trump, who faces a May 12 deadline to decide the accord’s fate, said, “This is a deal with decayed foundations. It’s a bad deal, it’s a bad structure. It’s falling down . . . We’re going to see what happens on the 12th.”