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‘Strategic error’: Macron on attempt to change power in Iran by outside force French President Emmanuel Macron believes that a desire to change the leadership in Iran using an external force is a strategic error. “Anyone who believes that by striking from outside you can rescue a country in spite of itself and against itself has always been wrong,” he told journalists on the sidelines of the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Canada. According to Macron, “anyone, who in the past attempted to change a regime using strikes or military operations, committed strategic errors.” – “This is what past…