French President Emmanuel Macron has talked with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and urged Tehran to show restraint amid rising tensions in the region.
Macron's office said on Saturday that the French leader asked Iran to "take necessary measures" to encourage negotiations in Yemen's war and urged Iran to show "the greatest restraint in Lebanon so that nothing compromises stability in this moment of great tension."
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The tense standoff between Israel and Iran around Lebanon has pushed the bitter adversaries closer toward open, armed conflict in recent weeks.
An alleged Israeli drone strike on a Hezbollah media center in Beirut last weekend destroyed precision missile infrastructure set up by the Iran-backed Shiite terrorist group, according to a report in The Times, a British newspaper.
One of the drones that crashed into the building in a Hezbollah stronghold neighborhood of Dahiya struck crates containing a high-grade propellant mix for precision-guided missiles and destroyed a remote control machine for rocket guidance, according to the report.
The IDF has kept mum on the issue, and it remains unclear whether the two drones, said to be on an intelligence-gathering mission, were downed, or whether the first drone malfunctioned and the second was sent to destroy it.
According to Macron's office, the French president also pushed again for Iran to adhere to its nuclear agreement, after trying earlier to arrange a US-Iran meeting. Macron is trying to play mediator to save the 2015 UN accord aimed at curbing Iran's nuclear ambitions that US President Donald Trump rejects.
