{"id":60090,"date":"2026-05-06T22:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T22:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/60090\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T22:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T22:20:20","slug":"strikes-on-uae-and-ships-unjustified-macron-tells-iran-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/60090\/","title":{"rendered":"Strikes on UAE and ships \u2018unjustified\u2019, Macron tells Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"Emmanuel Macron\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"912\" height=\"570\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"html-img h-auto w-full\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/c1b16fe8-emmanuel-macron.jpg\"\/>President Emmanuel Macron reviews troops as he attends the Orion 2026 military exercises at Mailly-le-Camp in eastern France. (EPA Images pic)<br \/>\nPARIS: French president Emmanuel Macron said he told Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday that attacks on Emirati civilian infrastructure and ships near the Strait of Hormuz were \u201cunjustified\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">\u201cI expressed my deep concern about the ongoing escalation and condemned the unjustified strikes against Emirati civilian infrastructure and several ships,\u201d he said on X after the discussion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">The Iranian presidency said on its website that Macron and Pezeshkian had discussed the latest regional developments, the course of negotiations and the situation in the Strait of Hormuz in a telephone call.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">\u201cWe are pleased that France\u2019s approach is based on resolving issues through dialogue,\u201d Pezeshkian told Macron, according to Iran\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">But \u201cany negotiation regarding the full reopening of the Strait of Hormuz requires the lifting of the naval blockade imposed by the United States\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">\u201cIran is ready to resolve all issues within the framework of international laws and regulations and has no demands beyond securing the legitimate rights of the Iranian nation,\u201d Pezeshkian said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">He also provided reasons for Iran\u2019s \u201cdistrust\u201d of the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">\u201cExcessive demands, threatening statements, and failure to adhere to necessary frameworks by the United States have further complicated the path of diplomacy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Emmanuel Macron reviews troops as he attends the Orion 2026 military exercises at Mailly-le-Camp in eastern France.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[242,245,34,243,247,107,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-60090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-emmanuel-macron","8":"tag-emmanuel-macron","9":"tag-france","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-macron","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116529962939078461","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}