Jean-Noël Barrot, who has served as France's foreign minister since September 2024, discusses the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine and the situation in Iran in an interview with Le Monde.

Let's stop beating ourselves up! To resolve the Iranian crisis, France and its German and British partners have a very powerful lever. With a simple letter in the mail, we can reimpose on Iran a global embargo on weapons, nuclear equipment, banks and insurance, which was lifted 10 years ago. If Tehran refuses to negotiate a strict and lasting framework for its nuclear activities that guarantees our security interests, we will be able to activate this mechanism over the summer.

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