Emmanuel Macron, President of France, said on Tuesday, 31 Shahrivar, at the United Nations General Assembly that reopening the Strait of Hormuz is “a priority,” and announced that France has formed “an independent and multinational coalition” to restore freedom of navigation.

He warned that this strait “should not become a tool of extortion.” Macron also warned about regime change from the outside and said that each time “several governments” have tried to “replace peoples” in order to change “this regime or that system,” they have pushed those countries into “more acute chaos.”