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Israel’s Foreign Minister Speaks with French FM Jean-Noël Barrot, Accuses Iran of ‘Naval Terrorism’ in Straight of Hormuz
Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar spoke with French FM Jean-Noël Barrot, labeling Iran's actions in the Strait of Hormuz as "naval terrorism" impacting the.
Jerusalem, 18 March, 2026 (TPS-IL) — Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar spoke with his French counterpart FM Jean-Noël Barrot about the war in Iran and about Lebanon.
Sa’ar said he emphasized that the issue of the Strait of Hormuz is “not an American or Israeli issue – it’s a global one,” but it is a form of “naval terrorism that harms the global economy. It began with the Houthis in the Red Sea, and now the Iranian regime itself is carrying it out. The international community’s de facto acceptance of this grave phenomenon will encourage harm to the freedom of navigation and global economy, and it will spread to additional maritime arenas. This is a dramatic undermining of the world order.”
Regarding Lebanon, Sa’ar said he stressed that since March 2nd, Israel has been attacked from Lebanese territory more than 2,000 times with missiles and drones. And so, Israel has an interest in Lebanon joining the circle of normalization and peace in the region.
“The obstacle to this is Hezbollah,” he said, adding that the Lebanese government “must take meaningful action against Hezbollah on all fronts: weapons, sources of funding and financial infrastructure, legal measures against its leadership, its social and educational infrastructure, economic benefits (licenses), and more.”
