Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has called for an end to “crimes” in Lebanon and Gaza in a phone call with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, AFP reports according to the Iranian presidential website.

They discussed ways to secure a “ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel”, a statement on the website said, adding that Pezeshkian “asked the French president to work together with other European countries to force the Zionist regime to stop the genocide and crimes in Gaza and Lebanon”.