{"id":249619,"date":"2026-04-02T15:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=249619"},"modified":"2026-04-02T16:06:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T12:06:37","slug":"macron-says-military-action-wont-resolve-irans-nuclear-program-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/249619\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron says military action won\u2019t resolve Iran\u2019s nuclear program issue"},"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>French President Emmanuel Macron has addressed the latest developments in Iran and the Strait of Hormuz during a visit to South Korea, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/liveblog\/2026\/4\/2\/iran-war-live-trump-to-address-nation-tehran-denies-seeking-ceasefire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Al Jazeera<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>He said the US-Israeli attacks on Iran will not resolve the issue of Iran&rsquo;s nuclear program, calling for diplomacy instead.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If there is no framework for diplomatic and technical negotiations, the situation can deteriorate again in a few months or a few years,&rdquo; said Macron.<\/p>\n<p>The French president also threw cold water on a proposed military operation to open the Strait of Hormuz, saying it was &ldquo;unrealistic&#8228;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French President Emmanuel Macron has addressed the latest developments in Iran and the Strait of Hormuz during a visit to South Korea, Al Jazeera writes. He said the US-Israeli attacks on Iran will not resolve the issue of Iran&rsquo;s nuclear program, calling for diplomacy instead. &ldquo;If there is no framework for diplomatic and technical negotiations, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":249600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-iran-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249619","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=249619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249622,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249619\/revisions\/249622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}