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France preparing to help its citizens in Israel, Iran leave, Barrot says
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Posted on June 19, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026
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Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on June 19, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026
France is organizing evacuations for its citizens in Israel and Iran due to rising tensions, with plans for safe passage to neighboring countries.
PARIS (Reuters) -France is preparing to help its citizens in Israel and Iran to leave those countries amid a week of strikes exchanged between the two rivals, French foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Thursday.
Barrot told reporters that a convoy will be arranged by the end of the week to get French nationals without their own means of doing so to the Turkish or Armenian borders from Iran to access airports in those countries.
French citizens in Israel will be able to board buses starting Friday morning from the Jordanian border for airports in Jordan, with a flight chartered from Amman by the end of the week to aid the passage of French citizens who are vulnerable or in emergency situations, Barrot said.
Separately, Barrot reiterated that France was committed to holding a conference on a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians, after France postponed one scheduled for this week.
(Reporting by Makini Brice and Dominique Vidalon)
French citizens in Israel will be able to board buses starting Friday morning from the Jordanian border to access airports in Jordan.
A convoy will be arranged by the end of the week to transport French nationals from Iran to the Turkish or Armenian borders to access airports.
Barrot reiterated that France is committed to holding a conference on a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians, despite postponing one scheduled for this week.
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