France offers aircraft, frigates and carrier group to secure strait if requested, says French presenter

A French presenter told the G7 press gathering in Evian that France had assembled offers from partner countries to support observation and security in a strait affected by the recent Iran agreement and that contributions were ready on short notice.

The French presenter said, in French, that France could have aircraft on site "dès demain" and deploy frigates under "48 heures" to "deux à trois jours," and that a carrier with accompanying frigates could be available in "deux à trois jours" — but only "si c'est souhaité et demandé par les États-Unis d'Amérique et l'Iran et Oman," i.e., at the explicit request of the stakeholder parties. He added that some 20 countries had already offered concrete contributions to the mission ad hoc.

Why it matters: The comments set conditions for multinational naval support tied to the Iran agreement, emphasizing that deployments would be contingent on formal requests by the parties with legitimate jurisdiction or standing in the strait. The presenter framed the offer as an "availability" and demonstration of international support rather than a unilateral deployment.

Operational constraints and conditions: The French speaker explicitly said deployments presuppose a request by the United States and the parties to the agreement (the presenter named Iran and Oman as examples). He described the offer as "an ad-hoc mission" with contributions pledged by about 20 countries and stressed that any force presence would follow the receiving parties' wishes.

Context and next steps: No binding commitments or orders were recorded during the press remarks; the speaker presented the military offers as contingent and cooperative. Reporters did not elicit formal timelines for decisions or legal authorizations; the transcript records the French presenter's description of readiness and the conditional nature of any deployment.