French President Emmanuel Macron has talked with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and urged Tehran to show restraint amid rising tensions in the region.
Macron's office said Saturday that the French leader asked Iran to "take necessary measures" to encourage negotiations in Yemen's war and urged Iran to show "the greatest restraint in Lebanon so that nothing compromises stability in this moment of great tension."
Tensions between Israel and Hezbollah have risen since the explosion of an Israeli drone in Beirut's southern suburbs on Aug. 31 that damaged the group's media offices. Hezbollah's leader, Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah, has vowed to retaliate for the attack.
The French presidential office says Macron also pushed again for Iran to adhere to its nuclear agreement, after trying earlier to arrange a U.S.-Iran meeting. Macron is trying to play mediator to save the 2015 U.N. accord curbing Iran's nuclear ambitions that President Donald Trump rejects.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged Macron in a call Friday to avoid rapprochement with Rouhani, saying it was “precisely the wrong time to talk with Iran.”
Agencies
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