France’s Macron Asked Iran’s Rouhani Not to Escalate Tensions
- Macron asks Rouhani to return to nuclear deal quickly
- France “deeply worried” by recent events in Middle East
Emmanuel Macron
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French President Emmanuel Macron asked Iranian President Hassan Rouhani not to escalate tensions and to resume respecting its 2015 nuclear deal.
In a phone call Tuesday, Macron told Rouhani that France was “deeply worried” by recent events in the Middle East and asked Rouhani “to refrain from taking any action that would aggravate rising tensions,” the French executive said in a statement.