French medals ID needed

[Mr.Jerry D]

A friend of mine picked up this photo, while we were able to ID most of the ribboned medals, can anyone ID the breast star? any chance we could ID the guy?

Thanks!
Jerry

[Ir 143]

Medal.

Hello, looks like the Nichan Iftikhar see here:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichan...andCrossFR.jpg

THe man on the picture is a WW veteran.

[Mr.Jerry D]

Thank you! I believe you nailed it!