Paris (AFP)
French President Emmanuel Macron assured his American counterpart Donald Trump of "its full solidarity with the allies" and called on Iran to refrain from "any military escalation likely to further aggravate regional instability".
"Faced with rising tensions in Iraq and the region", Emmanuel Macron also "expressed concern over the destabilizing activities of the Al Quds force under the authority of General Qassem Soleimani", killed on Friday by the United States, and "recalled the need for Iran to end it now," according to a statement from the Elysee.
The president noted "France's determination to work alongside its regional and international partners to ease tensions".
He reiterated that, according to him, "priority should go to the pursuit of the action of the International Coalition against Daesh, with full respect for the sovereignty of Iraq, for its security and for regional stability".
The Iraqi parliament called on the government on Sunday for the expulsion of American troops from the country, where a pro-Iran faction called on Iraqi soldiers to move away from the bases where American forces are located, raising the fear of even more violence.
Since the assassination in an American raid Friday in Iraq of Qassem Soleimani, architect of the Iranian strategy in the Middle East, and Abu Mehdi al-Mouhandis, the man of Iran in Iraq and number two of Hashd al- Chaabi, a coalition of pro-Iran paramilitaries integrated into the security forces, the whole world fears a blast.
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