France has joined a number of European leaders in expressing concern and urging “restraint” following US air strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities early Sunday. President Emmanuel Macron is to hold a defence council meeting later today.<\/p>\n
Together with European partners, France has advocated a diplomatic solution in a bid to end the conflict between Israel and Iran which began with Israel launching strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities on 13 June.<\/p>\n
“France<\/a> has taken note with concern of the strikes carried out last night by the United States of America against three sites of Iran’s nuclear programme,” Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot<\/a> posted on X on Sunday.<\/p>\n He said that France did not take part in planning the strikes.<\/p>\n Barrot added that France was urging “all parties to exercise restraint to avoid any escalation that could lead to an extension of the conflict”.<\/p>\n ‘Return to negotiating table’<\/p>\n The French presidency said Emmanuel Macron would convene a meeting of the defence and national security council later on Sunday.<\/p>\n The president, who spoke with Saudi Arabia<\/a>‘s Crown Prince and the leader of Oman earlier Sunday, “intends to continue his contacts with European partners and leaders in the region in the coming hours”, his office added.<\/p>\n Why is Israel bombing Iran?<\/a><\/p>\n Read more on RFI English<\/a><\/p>\n Read also:
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Trump says US attack ‘obliterated’ Iran nuclear sites<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France has joined a number of European leaders in expressing concern and urging “restraint” following US air strikes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[34,2000,299,14165,82663,36,774,74674,82662],"class_list":{"0":"post-205112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-emmanuel-macron","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european-leaders","12":"tag-european-partners","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-iran","15":"tag-nuclear-facilities","16":"tag-us-air-strikes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114727055759504254","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}