In Paris, Macron and Netanyahu assume their differences
After nearly two hours of face-to-face meetings at the Elysee Palace on Tuesday (June 5th), French President Emmanuel Macron and Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu were only able to note their disagreement on the issue. heart of their concerns of the moment, the Iran nuclear deal. In front of the press, the two heads of state took note of their divergences of views, with sometimes a point of irony but without any real controversy, preferring to emphasize their common ground, as the search for a solution in Syria, in a polite courtesy on the occasion of the inauguration of the France-Israel cross cultural season.
Netanyahu took advantage of the long-planned event to conduct a tour that took him to Berlin on Monday and London on Wednesday to try to rally the Europeans to his hard line against Tehran. "In my view, the biggest threat to the world today is nuclear weapons in the hands of a radical Islamist regime like Iran," he said in Paris, calling for "maximum exercise pressure on Iran to make sure its nuclear program
does not lead anywhere. "
Mr Netanyahu hoped to convince the three European countries to withdraw from the July 2015 agreement, as the US did on May 8, saying it was ineffective in preventing Iran from accessing the atomic bomb. In vain. After German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday, President Macron reiterated his "deep conviction" in the need to preserve this agreement "to control the nuclear activity of the region". "This agreement is a step that needs to be complemented by an agreement on post-2025 nuclear activity, work on Iran's ballistic activity and work on Iran's regional presence," he said. he conceded.
