{"id":7129,"date":"2026-01-25T14:07:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T14:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/?p=7129"},"modified":"2026-01-25T14:07:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T14:07:03","slug":"france-rules-out-military-intervention-in-iran-says-iranians-must-choose-their-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/?p=7129","title":{"rendered":"France Rules Out Military Intervention in Iran, Says \u201cIranians Must Choose Their Future\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">France does not see military intervention as an option in Iran, Armed Forces Minister <strong>Alice Rufo<\/strong> said Sunday, arguing that while Paris should \u201csupport the Iranian people in every possible way,\u201d it is \u201cnot our job to choose their leader.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking on the political program <em>Le Grand Jury<\/em>, Rufo warned that documenting abuses has become \u201cextremely difficult\u201d amid a sweeping internet blackout imposed since <strong>January 8<\/strong>, as nationwide protests over economic hardship have expanded into calls to end the clerical system. Human-rights groups have recorded <strong>several thousand<\/strong> deaths, with Norway-based Iran Human Rights estimating the toll could surpass <strong>25,000<\/strong>, while Tehran puts the figure at <strong>3,117<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Iranian people have rejected their regime,\u201d Rufo said, reiterating that Iran\u2019s future must be decided by Iranians themselves. Her comments came as U.S. President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> has repeatedly threatened strikes on Iran over the crackdown, though he has appeared to soften that stance after Tehran said planned executions were being paused. Protests that began in <strong>Tehran on December 28<\/strong> have since spread widely across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France does not see military intervention as an option in Iran, Armed Forces Minister Alice Rufo said Sunday, arguing that while Paris should \u201csupport the Iranian people in every possible way,\u201d it is \u201cnot our job to choose their leader.\u201d Speaking on the political program Le Grand Jury, Rufo warned that documenting abuses has become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7136,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129\/revisions\/7136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}