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2025-10-21 14:39
Sarkozy behind bars: France’s elite reels as former president jailed
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, sentenced to five years in prison for criminal conspiracy in connection with illicit Libyan financing of his 2007 campaign, was incarcerated at Paris’s La Santé prison on Tuesday, Mediapart reported.
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2025-10-06 14:55
Political free fall: Lecornu resigns as Macron’s fifth prime minister in two years
France’s Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned Monday, hours after unveiling a cabinet that kept 13 of 18 ministers from the toppled Bayrou team—ending the shortest-lived government in modern French history and sealing a record-breaking 27-day premiership.
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2025-09-20 21:49
By Sahar Dadjoo
Araghchi represents Iran’s official stance, Prof. Gärtner says after Macron’s controversial remarks
Political expert adds it’s fair that Iran demands no new military strikes during renewed talks
TEHRAN – Prof. Dr. Heinz Gärtner, a distinguished scholar of international relations and political science at the University of Vienna, brings decades of expertise on global security, transatlantic relations, nuclear non-proliferation, and West Asian geopolitics.
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2025-09-19 21:14
By Mona Hojat Ansari
Iran says Europe ignored ‘logical’ offer based on ‘baseless excuses’
A day after Macron accused Araghchi of lacking agency, the E3 caved in to US pressure and officially began snapback of UN sanctions
TEHRAN – As a leader who has frequently talked about how “concerned” he is about Iran’s battered nuclear program in recent weeks, Emanuel Macron of France inarguably blunted any efforts to prevent tensions from shooting up when he sat down with a Zionist journalist on Thursday and announced that Europe will re-instate UN sanctions against Iran, regardless of what the country has done or might do in the future.
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2025-08-27 21:37
Europe’s Snapback Gamble
Unofficial sources say the European troika plans to unlawfully trigger the reimposition of UN Security Council sanctions against Iran
TEHRAN – In a move that could further escalate tensions with Iran, Britain, France, and Germany—collectively known as the E3—are reportedly preparing to trigger the so-called “snapback” mechanism of the 2015 nuclear deal.
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2025-08-20 14:37
Macron hits back at ‘abject’, ‘erroneous’ anti-Semitism accusations by Netanyahu
A diplomatic row between Israel and France has broken out after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused French President Emmanuel Macron of fueling “the anti-Semitic fire” in France by planning to recognize Palestinian statehood, Al Jazeera reported Wednesday.
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2025/07/29
By Peiman Salehi
What the Iran strike revealed about West’s use of diplomacy
TEHRAN – In June 2025, while indirect nuclear negotiations between Iran and the United States were still underway, Israeli forces, soon followed by the U.S., launched a coordinated military strike on Iranian territory. This act of aggression occurred not in the absence of diplomacy but at its very height. Communication channels were open. Sanction relief was reportedly on the table. And yet, bombs fell.
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2025-07-25 22:28
By Shahrokh Saei
France’s recognition of Palestine: A historic shift or hollow gesture?
TEHRAN — In a bold and historic move, President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will officially recognize the State of Palestine, signaling a significant shift in the country’s foreign policy and its stance on Israel’s war on Gaza.
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2025-06-21 23:14
Iran’s response to continued aggression will be more crushing: Pezeshkian
TEHRAN – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, in a Saturday phone conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron, emphasized that the Islamic Republic will deliver a “more decisive and crushing response” if Israel continues its acts of aggression.
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2025-06-09 22:50
Greenland ‘not for sale’: Macron tells UN ocean summit
French President Emmanuel Macron opened the UN Ocean Conference in Nice on Monday with an urgent call for multilateral action to save the seas.
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2025-05-31 23:00
By our staff writer
Israel Katz mocks France and Europe at large
TEHRAN - Israel Katz said on Friday that Israel will build a “Jewish Israeli state” in the occupied West Bank. He made the declaration a day after the occupation regime announced the creation of 22 new settlements in the Palestinian territory.
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2025-05-30 21:06
Macron threatens sanctions on Israelis over Gaza aid crisis
French President Emmanuel Macron has warned that his country could “apply sanctions” against Israelis unless the government in Tel Aviv responds to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Al Jazeera reported.
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2025-05-10 23:06
European leaders make symbolic visit to Kyiv
The leaders of Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Poland have told Russian leader Vladimir Putin to agree to a 30-day ceasefire starting on Monday or face possible “massive” sanctions, according to French President Emmanuel Macron, on a highly symbolic visit to Kyiv. The demand comes with the backing of the White House after a joint phone call with President Donald Trump, the Europeans said.
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2025-05-06 20:22
Macron to host Syria's al-Sharaa
French President Emmanuel Macron will host Syrian counterpart Ahmed al-Sharaa on Wednesday for the former terrorist leader’s first European visit, the French presidency told AFP.