Macron Says the US Offered an Israel-Iran Ceasefire Agreement
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks to the press during the G7 Summit in Kananaskis, Canada, 16 June 2025.
KANANASKIS (Canada), 17/06/2025.- French President Emmanuel Macron speaks to the press during the G7 Summit in Kananaskis, Canada, 16 June 2025. World leaders are gathered from 15 to 17 June 2025 for the annual G7 Summit. EFE/EPA/TERESA SUAREZ / POOL
June 16, 2025 Hour: 11:07 pm
French President Emmanuel Macron asserted on Monday that the United States has offered a ceasefire to Iran and Israel and considered that seeking the destruction of in Iran’s political system would be an error.
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“There is an offer. Indeed, an offer of meeting and exchange has been made. There is an offer of a ceasefire and of launching more extensive talks. If the United States can obtain a ceasefire, that is a very good thing. We will have to see what else happens,” the French president said in a meeting with the press from the tourist resort where the G7 leaders’ summit is being held.
Macron also considered that pursuing a political system change in Tehran, something that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has suggested, would be a “strategic error.”
The French president described it as “mistaken” to assume that a solution would be achieved through bombing and expressed confidence that the parties could achieve a cessation of hostilities after five days of exchanges of aerial bombardments.
On Monday, the US president Donald Trump fled from the G7 Summit in Canada.
The announcement of Trump’s return to the US coincided with the arrival in Canada of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, whose main reason for traveling to Kananaskis was to meet with the US president and discuss the trade conflict between the two countries.
Others affected by Trump’s hasty departure are the presidents of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, and Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who, like Sheinbaum, had scheduled meetings with the US leader to discuss bilateral issues.
Throughout the day, the explosive armed conflict between Israel and Iran had dominated the G7 leaders’ talks, along with the global economic situation, and in particular the tariffs imposed by the US administration.
While on the trade front, the talks appeared to be moving rapidly, Trump’s statements about the conflict in the Middle East became increasingly dramatic as the day progressed.