The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, made this Thursday (2) his harshest criticisms of the American president, Donald Trump, regarding the war between the United States and Israel against Iran, which began on February 28.
According to information from CNN, the French president made the comments during a press conference in South Korea, where he is on an official visit.
Regarding Trump’s demands that the US’ European allies in NATO help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic passage closed almost entirely by the Iranian regime due to the war, Macron said that the “idea of freeing the Strait of Hormuz by force through a military operation” is “unrealistic”.
The French president stated that this action could only occur after a ceasefire and the reopening of negotiations with Iran. Macron also reiterated that France will not participate in the conflict and claimed that, if the objective of the war is to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons, the ongoing operation “is not serious”.
“There are still and will continue to be people in Iran tomorrow with the experience [em assuntos nucleares] necessary, and also secret installations, etc. Therefore, targeted military action, lasting just a few weeks, is not enough to resolve the nuclear issue in the long term,” he claimed.
“When we want to be serious, we don’t say every day the opposite of what we said the day before,” said Macron, accusing Trump of contradicting himself.
After criticizing NATO allies for not helping to reopen Hormuz, Trump said on Tuesday (31) that European countries should remove the oil trapped in the strait on their own.
“You will have to learn to fight for yourselves, the US will no longer be there to help you, just as you were not there to help us. Iran has essentially been decimated. The hardest part is over. Go get your own oil!”, he fired, in a post on the Truth Social network.
On the same day, Trump said that the French government did not authorize American planes carrying military supplies to Israel to transit through French airspace. “The USA will remember this!” Trump wrote on his social network.
