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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Donna Ferguson

France, Germany and UK urge Iran to ‘negotiate solution’ after attack

Starmer, Macron and Merz with flags and partly obscured MSC logo behind
Keir Starmer, Friedrich Merz and Emmanuel Macron together at the Munich Security Conference in Germany earlier in February. Photograph: Thomas Kienzle/Reuters

European leaders have urged Iran to seek a “negotiated solution” as they attempt to end the outbreak of war between the US, Israel and Iran through diplomatic means. They also clarified that they did not participate in the strikes.

In a rare joint statement, the leaders of France, Germany and the UK called on the Iranian state to allow its people to determine their own future and condemned Tehran’s retaliatory attacks on US army bases in the region.

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