France: Macron Sides with Iran's Mullahs
by Guy Millière • September 19, 2019 at 5:00 am
- On September 14, just a few days after former National Security Advisor Ambassador John R. Bolton was comfortably disappeared from the administration, Iran inflicted major damage on a massive oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia,
- Macron, in short, has done as much or more than any other European country to favor the Iranian regime -- more than Germany, and even more than the European Union itself. He could have chosen to act as a reliable ally of the United States, but the choice he made was a different.
- The French officials act and speak as if the Iranian regime was totally honorable, and as if they did not discern the obvious: that the Iranian regime has destructive goals. The nuclear deal did not divert the regime from its goal of building nuclear weapons. The deal, in fact, floated the regime toward precisely that end. The American strategy of applying maximum pressure through economic sanctions seems the only non-military way to pressure this regime to change course.
During
a visit to Washington in April 2018, French President Emmanuel Macron's
main goal seemed to be convincing US President Donald Trump not to
withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal. He tried seduction, hugging Trump
incessantly, before turning to arrogance, saying in a speech before
Congress: "France will not leave the Iranian nuclear agreement because
we signed it. Your President and your country will have to face their
responsibilities." (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
On
August 25, in Biarritz, France, the leaders of the Group of Seven (G7)
reunited to discuss world problems. The situation in the Middle East was
not on the agenda. French President Emmanuel Macron, the organizer of
the summit this year, was about to force it in.
He
had decided to invite to the summit Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad
Javad Zarif. Macron did not warn his guests of Zarif's attendance until
the last minute. His goal, it seems, was to bring about a meeting
between the Iranian minister and US President Donald J. Trump. President
Trump declined. Zarif had an informal conversation with Macron and some
French ministers, then flew back to Tehran. But Macron did not give up.
At a press conference the next day, he publicly asked President Trump
to meet Iranian leaders as soon as possible.
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