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After the U.S./Israeli strikes on the Islamic Republic of Iran began early Saturday morning, the far-left government of Canada offered tepid support for the strikes, while the government of Saudi Arabia, indignant after an Iranian strike against a U.S. base inside the kingdom, said that it would join in on striking Iran. So far, so good.
Emmanuel Macron’s France, however, had a markedly different reaction. Several hours after the strikes began, Macron wrote:
The outbreak of war between the United States, Israel, and Iran carries grave consequences for international peace and security.
Notice that he says nothing whatsoever about the yearning of the Iranian people for freedom after suffering 47 years of the Islamic regime’s bloodthirsty repression.
In this decisive moment, all measures are being taken to ensure the security of the national territory and that of our compatriots, as well as our interests in the Middle East.
France also stands ready to deploy the necessary resources to protect its closest partners at their request.
The ongoing escalation is dangerous for all. It must stop. The Iranian regime must understand that it no longer has any option but to engage in good-faith negotiations to end its nuclear and ballistic programs, as well as its actions of regional destabilization. This is absolutely essential to the security of all in the Middle East.
Macron here assumes that the Iranian Islamic regime will remain in power. He doesn’t consider even for the briefest of moments the possibility that these strikes could be the impetus for the regime’s long-awaited demise. Macron sees the mullahs remaining in power and calls upon them to return to the negotiating table; does he not realize that they were just negotiating, and that the negotiations came to nothing?
Does he not remember that the U.S. and other Western nations have been negotiating with the Islamic Republic since the Obama years, and before that, and that those negotiations have never done anything but help keep the Islamic regime in power? Macron displays not just a massive failure of imagination and strategic thinking; he is also proffering yet again the multiply failed solutions of an international order that is rapidly vanishing.
Nevertheless, he plows on:
The Iranian people must also be able to build their future freely. The massacres perpetrated by the Islamic regime disqualify it and require that the voice be given back to the people. The sooner, the better.
This is inconsistent, as he just called upon the Iranian regime to “engage in good-faith negotiations.” Now he says that it has been disqualified, and that he wants the Iranian people to have a voice. Great, but how does he envision their getting that voice, if he thinks that “the ongoing escalation is dangerous for all” and “must stop”? Macron offers no way forward. He is clearly just hoping that whichever side wins will think he was supporting it all along.
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WPM says
In the “spirit” of the cowards in French government who work with the Nazis during the occupation. Marcon refuses to pick a side is France not part of NATO ,is not Iran getting weapons and technology from China and Russia? Is he afraid of the reactions of the Moslems squatting in his country more then his country oblation? To avoid nuclear war from the pure jihadist rulers of Iran who want to bring back what they believe is the 12 Iman with the end of the world? They where working on missiles that could reach Europe does he think France would not be a target ?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
The average Iranians hate France, since they remember that it was France that sheltered Ayatollah Ruhullah Khomenei in the 70s before he returned to Iran to take over. Macron is just lamenting that he doesn’t get to host another Ayatollah once the Shah returns
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Talking about NATO, here they are, even while they have been MIA and their role irrelevant
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202603010715
Other than being a Shopify for Ukraine, I don’t see their military value to the US at all. If we just had a bilateral alliance w/ Israel, maybe extended to Cyprus, Greece and Armenia, that should be adequate for this region
GE says
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James Lincoln says
Infidel,
Interesting observation – and you may be correct.
Consider this:
Turkey is in NATO.
Israel is not in NATO.
Something is wrong with this picture.
Bexarkat says
I am sure that Jihad Watch missed the headlines, but within the first hour that the U.S. and Israel struck Iranian targets…France surrendered.
Hank says
Behaves like an unprincipled man. He forgot that his crowd was the one that harbored, signed, sealed and delivered the jihadist Khomeini in 1979 that oppressed the Iranian people for 47 years and ultimately lead to uncountable deaths, groups of people hanging on cranes and lamposts, and a currency == 0.
WPM says
Truth
They the government ruling France does not care about the future they harbor jihadist ,communist ,and even fascist in the past are darling of the left elite , Many people ruling France for the past century seem to think the evil in the world can not or will not touch them the elite who are willing to either ignore evil or work with evil to remain in power.
Michael says
He didn’t forget anything; supporting the regime while denouncing Israel is part and parcel of the globalist agenda.
KK says
Simply put, macron is a fool, pure and simple!
WPM says
He is a fool if he thinks France will skate if Iran got nuclear arms and missiles to launch into Europe from China and Russia? They both forget that America save them from the Nazis in WW11 and keep them safe in 50 years of the cold war with the former USSR.Never mind troops ,or arms they cannot even provide lip service to support America action..
Troybeam says
How deep is the pile of cheese curds that France has to support the now deceased Iranian leaders.
Steven Werner says
In response to what Macron said;
If life were like that, we’d all be riding unicorns.
somehistory says
What “international peace and security?” What about muzzies waging constant, unrelenting war on Christians all over Africa?
And who are the “closest partners” which he says France will use its resources to protect?
If the, now deader than any doornail, ghoul who daily threatened Israel and the U.S. with wipeout, had said the same about the French, what would macron have said or done?
“You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not terrified (Jesus).”
tgusa says
Here are some pertinent quotes from General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
gravenimage says
Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys Come Out for the Islamic Republic of Iran
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I don’t generally like the term “Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys”, but it is grimly spot on here.