Overview

• President Macron has tasked Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot with crafting within days a detailed settlement plan alongside the UK and Germany to halt the conflict.
• The proposal aims to defuse regional escalation after Israeli airstrikes increasingly struck sites unrelated to Iran’s nuclear or ballistic programs.
• EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas will join E3 counterparts in Geneva on Friday for talks with the Iranian foreign minister.
• Macron directed the French Foreign Ministry to assist French citizens wishing to leave Israel or Iran as civilian casualties mount on both sides.
• The initiative draws on the framework of the 2015 nuclear deal from which the United States withdrew during President Trump’s first term.