Overview
- In a call with President Masoud Pezeshkian, Emmanuel Macron urged an immediate stop to strikes carried out by Iran directly or via proxies and pressed for restoring safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz.
- Macron asked Tehran to release detained French nationals Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris and said targeting France in the regional escalation is unacceptable.
- Paris stressed its forces are operating in a strictly defensive posture to protect French interests, partners and freedom of navigation.
- Iran’s readout said it will not hesitate to confront aggressors, framed its actions as self‑defense, and asserted that recent attacks on Iranian sites were launched from the territory of certain Persian Gulf countries.
- Macron said France could help secure Hormuz only under a mission separate from the current war and after bombing stops, citing the need for talks and de‑escalation with Iran.