Israel-Iran: France, the featherweight that weighs in the Middle East, by Eric Chol

Israel Iran France the featherweight that weighs in the Middle East

When that does not want … The diplomatic dynamic, that Emmanuel Macron wanted to start in New York with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, will only be a vow. Finished, the idea – not very realistic – of the two -state solution, even with conditions. Reported Sine Die, just after the first Israeli strikes against Iran. Without completely putting an end to the blurring between the Israeli Prime Minister and the French head of state, even if the tone came down when the destructive salvas rose in the sky of Tehran.

And yet, Emmanuel Macron was a thousand times right to denounce the radicalization of an Israeli Prime Minister pushed by his most extreme political fringe. But this time, it is not a question of making the trial of “bibi”, nor of forgetting the sufferings of a Palestinian people deprived of humanitarian aid for almost four months, but rather of defending Israel, against the one who has sworn his annihilation: Iran.

An Iran liar

In the French compass, the needle of evil designates without trembling Teheran, and its mullahs’ diet. Admittedly, enturban dignitaries should not forget the undead of Gaza. But the reality is that the diplomatic way, recommended by Donald Trump, was unlikely to succeed, in front of a liar and falsifier. The International Atomic Energy Agency (AIEA) was not mistaken, accusing Tehran of hiding its small nuclear games.

The Islamic Republic of Iran, in its virtual bomb quest, preaches the false to better continue its enrichment of uranium. Neither Washington, Neither London, Ni Paris nor Berlin can trust him: Israel did not want to wait for the course of yet another cycle of negotiations in Muscat, preferring to draw his military aviation and his Kamikazes drones. Big Bang in the Middle East, coughs of rigor in the regional and international powers, poorly hiding a cowardly relief: Israel has made the “job”, the one that everyone expected.

“On the nuclear problem, there is now an imposed clarification. Each suspected the Iranians to negotiate in a dilatory manner. Without being ready to take the risk of a military option, with the exception of Israel considering that there was an existential threat,” analyzes David Rigoulet-Roze, researcher at the French Institute for Strategic Analysis, attached to the IRIS, and Strategic orient.

Since June 13, war has returned, before diplomacy resumed its rights. Does France still count, which, for lack of being considered by Tel Aviv as a close ally, has not been put to the scent of Israeli plans? Yes, if we judge that Paris was not mistaken in its choices. Even if it means assuming a “at the same time” reconciling a minimum of humanity to Gaza and the support – tacit – to Israeli strikes, while recusying the option of “changes change”. Summer lessons, Emmanuel Macron ended up annoying the host of the White House. But France, which was ten years ago one of the fiercest negotiators in the Vienna Agreement on Iranian nuclear, did not say its last word to claim tomorrow the return of sanctions against a regime with atomic ambitions.

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