Al-Monitor- French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian�s trip to Iran has seemingly failed to produce the results likely expected by President Emmanuel Macron.


Le Drian arrived in Iran on March 5 and met with President Hassan Rouhani, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani.

Amid the visit, hard-line daily Kayhan slammed the Rouhani administration for its �passivity� and for hosting the French foreign minister at this time. �We should consider politicians such as Le Drian and Macron as envoys of America instead of France. � Therefore, we should ask what new developments in the US-Iran relationship except hostility and not honoring commitments have occurred that the [Iranian] government [has decided to]�roll out a red carpet�for the envoy of the White House,� wrote Kayhan on March 6.

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