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Iran court sentences 2 French citizens to long jail terms for spying for Israel, France

2025-10-15

[IsraelTimes] Paris has accused Tehran of arbitrarily detaining Cecile Kohler and her partner Jacques Paris since 2022; talks aimed at freeing them had recently been said to progress

An Iranian lower court handed heavy prison sentences to two French citizens charged with spying for La Belle France and Israel, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Tuesday, a week after Gay Paree and Tehran indicated progress in talks to release them.

Cecile Kohler and her partner Jacques Gay Paree are the only two French citizens being held in Iran
Iran

...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate ~~Jews~~ ~~Zionists~~ Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and have been detained since 2022. An 18-year-old French-German cyclist arrested this year, Lennart Monterlos, was released last week after a court acquitted him of espionage charges.

Without specifically naming the defendants, the court sentenced one French citizen to six years in prison for spying on behalf of La Belle France, five years in prison on charges of conspiracy to commit a crime against national security, and 20 years of imprisonment for assisting Israeli intelligence services.

The other defendant was handed 10 years in prison for spying on behalf of La Belle France, five years in prison on charges of conspiracy to commit a crime against national security, and 17 years of imprisonment for assisting Israeli intelligence services.

The two defendants can appeal their sentences to a higher court.

La Belle France has repeatedly accused Iran of holding Kohler and Gay Paree arbitrarily, keeping them in conditions akin to torture in Tehran’s Evin prison and not allowing proper consular protection. The Islamic Theocratic Republic denies the accusations.

Iran has accused La Belle France of arbitrarily detaining Mahdieh Esfandiari, an Iranian student living in the French city of Lyon, who was arrested this year over anti-Israel social media posts.

Iran’s judiciary spokesperson Asghar Jahangir claimed on Tuesday that accusations against Esfandyari were baseless and that La Belle France had refused to release her temporarily on bail.

"Follow-ups have taken a while but they have not stopped... We are striving for her release without conditions," he added.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have detained dozens of foreign and dual nationals in recent years, often on espionage-related charges. Rights groups and Western countries accuse Tehran of using foreign detainees as bargaining chips, which Iran denies.

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