{"id":141533,"date":"2026-06-02T05:44:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/141533\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T05:44:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:44:29","slug":"france-bans-israeli-offensive-weapons-at-trade-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/141533\/","title":{"rendered":"France Bans Israeli Offensive Weapons at Trade Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/dronefront.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WhatsAppVideo2026-05-15at09.23.58.gif\" alt=\"The Drone Front\" width=\"1280\" height=\"539\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">France has banned the display of <a href=\"https:\/\/thedefensepost.com\/2026\/04\/01\/israel-x95-rifles\/\" id=\"https:\/\/thedefensepost.com\/2026\/04\/01\/israel-x95-rifles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Israeli offensive weapons<\/a> at the 2026 edition of the Eurosatory international defense and security exhibition, the organizers told AFP on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOnly Israeli exhibitors presenting anti-ballistic and anti-air defense systems are authorized,\u201d said the president of COGES Events, Charles Beaudouin, responding to an Israeli defense ministry statement that protested the restrictions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is a decision by the French government, by the Defence Council,\u201d Beaudouin added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere is no room for ambiguity: if an exhibitor is also a rocket manufacturer, they will not be allowed to display them. This ensures that no offensive weapons are present,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Israeli ministry denounced the move, saying it would \u201cbe unable to participate in the exhibition or establish a national pavilion.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is a disgraceful decision, one that reeks of political and commercial calculation, and regrettably, it comes as no surprise. It fits a deeply troubling pattern in French conduct in recent years,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paris has repeatedly condemned since late February Israel\u2019s attacks on Lebanese territory, where it is targeting the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Sunday, France requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council after the Israeli military seized the crusader-era Beaufort castle in Lebanon, flying its flag over the strategic landmark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eurosatory is taking place from June 15 to 19 at the Paris Nord Villepinte exhibition centre north of the capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; France has banned the display of Israeli offensive weapons at the 2026 edition of the Eurosatory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[8984,382,37],"class_list":["post-141533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-arms","tag-france","tag-israel"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116678928760898339","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}