France, June 15 -- President Emmanuel Macron's comments came after Washington and Tehran said they reached an agreement to end the war that the US and Israel launched on Iran in February, with a deal to be signed on Friday in Switzerland.

Under the agreement announced late on Sunday, Iran and the US agreed to an "immediate and permanent" end to military operations on all fronts, including Lebanon - notably lifting their blockades on the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly a fifth of global oil and LNG flowed before the war broke out on 28 February.

Macron, who is due to host US counterpart Donald Trump for a G7 meeting later on Monday, said that the UK-France mission's "assets are in place and ready to be deployed".

"The resumption...