The interview began around 7:30 pm (11:30 pm GMT), noted an AFP photographer. The French head of state, who arrived in New York at noon on Tuesday, is expected to speak at the UN on Wednesday.
Emmanuel Macron has already spoken twice this summer on the phone with Massoud Pezeshkian in the middle of the military escalation between Iran and its allies on the one hand and Israel on the other.
On August 7, he urged his country “get out of the logic of revenge“and to”do everything to avoid a new military escalation” in the region, after the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismaïl Haniyeh in Tehran.
On July 29, he had already given this speech, calling on Iran “stop supporting unstable actors“.
The escalation has reached new heights in recent days in Lebanon where Israeli strikes against the Islamic movement Hezbollah, backed by Iran and a friend of Palestinian Hamas, have left more than 550 dead. Monday.
Iran’s head of state said on Tuesday that Hezbollah could not “don’t stay alone“the face of Israel, a land according to you”protection, support and supply from Western countries“.
US President Joe Biden, Israel’s top military backer, said at the UN that “a widespread war (wasn’t) in anyone’s interest“.
At the request of France, an emergency Security Council will be held on this crisis on Wednesday.
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