French President Emmanuel Macron calls for strikes against civilians in Iran and Israel to end, and says the US has put forward a ceasefire proposal.
“If the United States can achieve a ceasefire, that’s a very good thing,” Macron tells reporters at a G7 summit in Canada, just as the White House announced that US President Donald Trump would leave the event early due the escalating crisis in the Middle East.
Macron calls on both Israel and Iran to “end” strikes against civilians and warns that aiming to overthrow Tehran’s clerical state would be a “strategic error.”
“All who have thought that by bombing from the outside you can save a country in spite of itself have always been mistaken,” he says.
Macron tells reporters that there “is indeed an offer to meet and exchange. An offer was made especially to get a ceasefire and to then kickstart broader discussions,” he says. “We have to see now whether the sides will follow.”
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