US President Donald Trump was about to sit down for dinner at Versailles on Wednesday when he surprised both his host, French President Emmanuel Macron, and some of his own aides with a demand: he wanted to sign his agreement with Iran then and there.

Axar.az informs, citing CNN, still, after months of war, the 14-point memorandum of understanding clearly came as a relief to a president who’d long been ready for the conflict to end. Advisers had warned that global oil stockpiles were shrinking. Republican anxiety about the upcoming midterm elections was fevered.

Trump acknowledged himself this week that it was economic concerns that led him to sign the agreement, telling reporters he feared being compared to Herbert Hoover, the American president who presided over a market crash that began the Great Depression.

“I didn’t want to see economic catastrophe,” he said Wednesday at the Hotel Royal in Evian-les-Bains as he concluded a Group of 7 summit.