The French Betrayal

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French President Emmanuel Macron arrogantly mocked President Trump following Mr. Trump’s speech on April 1^st concerning Operation Epic Fury’s objectives, military achievements so far, and the dire consequences facing Iran if its leaders do not quickly make a deal.

“When we’re serious, we don’t say every day the opposite of what we said the day before,” President Macron said regarding President Trump’s threat to intensify the bombing campaign against the Iranian regime. “And, maybe, one shouldn’t speak every day.”

President Macron should not speak at all about the war unless he and his European partners show some courage and finally stand by the U.S. and Israel to eliminate the grave military threats posed by Western civilization’s common enemy. That means putting an end to the Iranian regime’s nuclear weapons ambitions and defanging its military-industrial complex.

Instead, Macron continues to whine that “It is not our operation.” He is still talking with the other useless onlooking countries about what they would be willing to do, if anything, to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz after the war is over.

France has added insult to injury by refusing to authorize the use of French bases by American planes taking part in attacks on Iran. France has also “refused to grant overflight rights to certain US planes carrying military equipment bound for Israel and the Middle East,” Le Monde reported, prompting Israel to end its arms procurement from France. President Trump was outraged, and rightly so.

“The Country of France wouldn’t let planes headed to Israel, loaded up with military supplies, fly over French territory,” President Trump posted On Truth Social. “France has been VERY UNHELPFUL with respect to the ‘Butcher of Iran,’ who has been successfully eliminated! The USA will REMEMBER!!!”

Just a day after President Macron rejected the idea of launching a military operation to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a container ship belonging to a French shipping group managed to pass through the Strait unharmed. “This Strait must be reopened because it is strategic for energy flows, fertilizers, and international trade, but it can only be done in consultation with Iran,” President Macron had said. (Emphasis added)

Whether President Macron’s playing nice to the Iranian regime and the safe passage of a French-owned container ship that occurred within a day of each other were a mere coincidence or something more sinister is presently unknown. Was Macron willing to sell out the U.S. and Israel in exchange for the regime’s allowing some French-owned vessels with oil and liquefied natural gas cargo to pass safely through the Strait, treating France as a non-hostile nation? It is quite possible.

The tables were turned in 2011 when France took the lead in pressuring the United States, along with other NATO countries, to join its military campaign against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s dictatorship in Libya. The Obama administration obliged even though the United States had no strategic national interests at stake in Libya and Qaddafi had already voluntarily given up his country’s nuclear weapons program eight years earlier. The rationale given for this military campaign was to prevent the massacre of Libyan civilians by Qaddafi’s forces that would have resulted in a humanitarian catastrophe.

Somehow the slaughter of up to 45,000 innocent Iranian people by the barbaric Islamist Iranian regime, the world’s number one state sponsor of terrorism, does not meet the humanitarian threshold for Macron’s France to intervene militarily. And, unlike Qaddafi’s Libya, the Iranian regime has refused to give up its nuclear program beyond what is needed solely for civilian, peaceful purposes.

President Macron has repeatedly said that Iran must not be permitted to have nuclear weapons. On January 6, 2025, for example, he said that “Iran is the main strategic and security challenge for France, the Europeans, the entire region and much beyond. The acceleration of its nuclear program is leading us to the brink of rupture.”

In June 2025, before President Trump authorized the attack on three nuclear facilities in Iran, President Macron said, “Iran is continuing to enrich uranium…to levels that are very close to what is needed for a nuclear device.”

After the attack on its nuclear facilities, the Iranian regime worked hard to restore its uranium enrichment and nuclear weaponization program. Macron called for yet more diplomacy accompanied by economic sanctions. President Trump tried that route in an effort to get the Iranian regime to make a deal that would eliminate Iran’s nuclear threat. But the regime stalled for time. Its negotiators boasted to President Trump’s negotiators that the regime had enough highly enriched uranium to produce eleven nuclear bombs.

More talking would only have played into the Iranian regime’s hands until it was too late. President Trump decided not to take the chance with more Iranian stalling tactics and to launch Operation Epic Fury, together with Israel.

President Macron complained within hours after the U.S.-Israeli attacks against the Iranian regime commenced that “The current escalation is dangerous for everyone. It must stop.” He added, “The outbreak of war between the US, Israel and Iran has serious consequences for international peace and security.”

No, Monsieur Macron. Continuing to kick the can down the road and allowing the fanatical Iranian regime to have nuclear weapons with thousands of ballistic missiles capable of delivering them many miles away is an existential danger for everyone.

Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons, European Union.