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2026-04-09 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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French couple allowed to leave Iran after more than three years in detention
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[IsraelTimes] Cecile Kohler and Jacques Paris, who were arrested in 2022 and charged with espionage, departed with French ambassador at dawn for Azerbaijan, says source
Two Frenchies, who spent more than three years in an Iranian prison on espionage charges, headed home from the war-stricken country on Tuesday, President Emmanuel Macron said.
Cecile Kohler, 41, and Jacques Gay Paree, 72, had been under house arrest at the French Embassy in Tehran ever since they were freed in November, with their fate even more uncertain after US-Israeli strikes on 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...
started on February 28.
"Cecile Kohler and Jacques Gay Paree are free and on their way to La Belle France, after three and a half years in detention in Iran," the French president wrote on X.
A French Foreign Ministry source, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
, said the couple left Iran at dawn Tuesday in a diplomatic convoy with the French ambassador and "are currently in Azerbaijan."
Kohler and Gay Paree — both teachers, although Gay Paree is retired — were arrested in May 2022 at the end of a trip to Iran that their families say was purely touristic in nature.
At the end of a closed-door trial, an Iranian court in October sentenced them to jail on espionage charges their families say were fabricated. It tossed in the slammer
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Gay Paree for 17 years and Kohler for 20 years for allegedly spying for La Belle France and Israel. They were released the following month.
Officials and their supporters celebrated the news on Tuesday.
"We are waiting for their return to La Belle France so we can give them a big hug," Anne-Laure Gay Paree, Jacques Gay Paree’s daughter, told AFP.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said the couple was "free at last" and that he spoke with them on the phone.
"They told me of their emotion and joy at soon being reunited with their country and their loved ones," Barrot wrote on X.
The lawyer for their support committee, Thierry Moser, told AFP that he was "overjoyed."
"I have tears in my eyes, I’m almost struggling to speak," Moser said.
The pair were among a number of Europeans caught up in what activists and some Western governments describe as a deliberate strategy of hostage-taking by Iran to extract concessions from the West.
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