{"id":239584,"date":"2026-03-02T15:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=239584"},"modified":"2026-03-02T15:36:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:36:32","slug":"france-ready-to-defend-gulf-states-and-jordan-against-iran-foreign-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/239584\/","title":{"rendered":"France ready to defend Gulf states and Jordan against Iran, foreign minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>France is ready to defend the Persian Gulf countries and Jordan against Iran, French Foreign Minister Jean-No&euml;l Barrot said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;France expresses its full support and solidarity with our friendly countries that have become targets of IRGC missile and drone strikes and have been drawn into the conflict,&rdquo; the minister stated, referring to Bahrain, Jordan, Iraq, Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Under agreements signed with our partners and the principles of collective self-defense enshrined in international law, France is ready to take part in their defense,&rdquo; Barrot stated.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France is ready to defend the Persian Gulf countries and Jordan against Iran, French Foreign Minister Jean-No&euml;l Barrot said. &ldquo;France expresses its full support and solidarity with our friendly countries that have become targets of IRGC missile and drone strikes and have been drawn into the conflict,&rdquo; the minister stated, referring to Bahrain, Jordan, Iraq, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":239572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239586,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239584\/revisions\/239586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}