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Radio France Internationale
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Sarah Elzas

France treads 'a fine line between defensive and offensive’ in Middle East

A woman sits amid the rubble of a building damaged during the US-Israeli air campaign in Tehran, Iran, on 12 March. © Vahid Salemi/AP

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.

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