France says not supplying offensive weapons to Israel amid regime’s war on Iran

French Defense Minister Catherine Vautrin says the Paris government is not supplying offensive weapons to Israel amid the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran.

“No, France is not supplying arms to Israel. It (in the context of the anti-Iran onslaught) authorizes the sale of components intended for integration into air defense systems, such as the Iron Dome, and equipment intended exclusively for re-export, some of which is needed by our own armed forces,” the minister wrote in a social media post on Saturday.

The remarks came a few days after French President Emmanuel Macron said that France would not participate in any aggression against Iran on the side of the United States and Israel.

In an angry reaction to Macron’s words, Israeli ambassador to Paris Joshua Zarqa said the next day that France cannot be considered a friend of the Tel Aviv regime.

Araghchi slams France for failing to utter ‘one word of condemnation’ of Israel-US war on Iran

The Iranian foreign minister criticizes the French president for keeping silent vis-à-vis the US-Israel war of aggression against Iran.

The United States and Israel initiated a large-scale and unprovoked military campaign against Iran on February 28, assassinating Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and several high-ranking military commanders despite indirect Tehran-Washington negotiations on Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.

In response, Iranian Armed Forces have carried out waves of retaliatory missile and drone operations against US interests across West Asia and Israeli positions in the occupied territories.

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