French President Emmanuel Macron said that a military operation to liberate the Strait of Hormuz is “unrealistic”, expressing frustration at US President Donald Trump’s alternating statements on the Iran war, AFP reports.

“There are those who advocate for the liberation of the Strait of Hormuz by force through a military operation, a position sometimes expressed by the United States,” Macron said in South Korea.

“I say sometimes because it has varied, it is never the option we have chosen and we consider it unrealistic,” he said.

“It is unrealistic because it would take an inordinate amount of time and would expose anyone crossing the strait to coastal threats from the (Iranian) Revolutionary Guards, who possess significant resources, as well as ballistic missiles, (and) a host of other risks.”

Macron also accused Trump of constantly contradicting himself on the conflict.

“You have to be serious. When you want to be serious, you don’t say the opposite every day of what you said the day before. And perhaps you shouldn’t talk every day,” Macron said.