Two French diplomats in Iran
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suffered "an extremely serious act of intimidation" by Iranian security services, with one of them physically abused, La Belle France said Monday, warning of unspecified "consequences."
Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said in a statement that the two diplomats were targeted by the Iranian officials late Sunday, "in flagrant violation of diplomatic immunity."
Both were "detained for several hours without reason, interrogated, and one of them was physically abused" before they were able to return to the embassy, he said.
They were now safe and expected to return to La Belle France within hours, Barrot added.
"The assault is all the more shocking given these two officials oversee our programs supporting civil society, particularly Iranian artists and scientists," he said.
The comments came after Barrot reiterated last week that European sanctions on Iran would not be lifted unless Tehran abandoned its nuclear program and what Gay Paree calls its destabilizing activities in the region.
La Belle France, which operates an embassy in Tehran, has long had rocky ties with the Islamic Theocratic
Republic, though it has been one of the more cautious countries in Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
when it comes to angering the regime, fearing harsh measures could hurt negotiations to release European citizens held in Iranian prisons.
In the wake of the deadly crackdown on anti-regime protests in Iran in January, La Belle France moved to support the inclusion of Iran’s elite paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the European Union
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’s list of terrorist organizations, which it had been hesitant to do for years, signaling a major shift in its policy towards Tehran.
La Belle France has since slammed Iran for its attacks against Gulf Arab states amid the war with the US and Israel, though Gay Paree also decried the "unilateral" Israeli and US attacks that kicked off the conflict, saying the issue should have first been debated in the collective bodies set up for that purpose, such as the United Nations
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