French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday condemned the recent escalation in the Persian Gulf, stating that the US decision to keep a naval blockade in place and Iran\u2019s subsequent reversal of its \u201copen strait\u201d policy represent a \u201cmistake on both sides.\u201d Speaking at a joint press conference in Gdansk, Poland, alongside Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Macron expressed concern over the fragile maritime situation.<\/p>\n
Return to \u2018Friday decisions\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is likely that, following the US decision to maintain a targeted blockade on Hormuz \u2014 affecting all those with ties to Iran \u2014 the Iranian authorities have changed their initial position,\u201d Macron said. \u201cI believe this is a mistake on both sides.\u201d He emphasized that the international community must return to the \u201cFriday decisions\u201d \u2014 a short-lived diplomatic breakthrough that briefly reopened the waterway \u2014 and settle everything through diplomacy. \u201cEveryone must return to calm,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Russia benefits from chaos<\/p>\n
Macron called for a \u201clasting peace through negotiations on nuclear and ballistic missile issues\u201d rather than military pressure. Tusk echoed the call for de-escalation, warning that Russia is the primary beneficiary of regional chaos. \u201cThere is one obvious winner in this war: Putin,\u201d Tusk said, noting that high oil prices and diverted Western attention serve Moscow\u2019s interests. Macron urged an international \u201cdefensive\u201d mission to ensure the unconditional reopening of the Strait of Hormuz for global energy security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday condemned the recent escalation in the Persian Gulf, stating that the US…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2337,64,712,2336,453,2248,851],"class_list":{"0":"post-2858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-donald-tusk","8":"tag-blockade","9":"tag-donald-tusk","10":"tag-emmanuel-macron","11":"tag-hormuz","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-macron","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}