
President Emmanuel Macron has condemned the attacks on Iran by the United States and Israel as a violation of international law, while France deploys military forces to protect its interests in the region and defend its allies hit by Iranian reprisals – a balancing act that could prove to be difficult to maintain.
"The Europeans find themselves swept up in this,” Cyrille Bret, a geopolitical analyst and researcher at the Jacques-Delors Institute, told RFI.