Faced with the military escalation in the Middle East, Emmanuel Macron The government has decided to convene a new national defense and security council this Tuesday at 18:30 p.m. at the Élysée Palace. This meeting comes as the war that began on February 28 between Iran on one side and the United States and Israel on the other enters its eleventh day and continues to cause significant tensions throughout the region.
According to the Élysée Palace, this defense council meeting is intended to provide a comprehensive overview of the military and diplomatic situation, as well as the safety of French citizens in the Middle East. Since the beginning of the conflict, several repatriation operations have already been organized to evacuate French nationals from the most exposed areas.
The situation remains particularly volatile. While Donald Trump While Iran asserted on Monday that the war could soon end, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, for their part, asserted that it would be Tehran that "decides on the end of the war," leaving uncertainty about the evolution of the conflict in the coming days.
