The G7 Meets to Discuss the Iran Crisis

G7 Foreign Ministers meeting Paris March 27 2026

The foreign ministers of the world's seven wealthiest democracies — known as the G7 — gathered at the Vaux-de-Cernay Abbey outside Paris on March 27, 2026, for an emergency meeting dominated by the Iran crisis. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived hoping to build support among European allies for the Trump administration's military campaign against Tehran.

However, he found that his European counterparts were far less enthusiastic about the operation. European leaders have not openly criticised the United States, but they are deeply uncomfortable with how the campaign began — without any consultation with allies — and with the scale of civilian casualties that have resulted.

According to the International Organization for Migration, strikes since February 28 have damaged over 82,000 civilian buildings across 20 of Iran's provinces, displacing 180,000 people. At the same meeting, the G7 agreed in principle that the Strait of Hormuz should be reopened — but only after the war ends.

This is a statement that satisfies nobody completely: Iran sees it as a condition it cannot meet while under attack, and European businesses need the strait open now to bring down energy prices. Meanwhile, US President Trump announced the same day that he would postpone his deadline for Iran to open the strait, giving Tehran ten more days before the threat of strikes on Iranian power plants would be renewed.