Iran says two French embassy employees barred from returning
Iran accused the staff of violating diplomatic rules and said France will expel two Iranian diplomats in response, officials said.
- On Monday, Iran's Foreign Ministry announced that two French embassy employees involved in a July dispute will be barred from returning to the country, with spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei alleging they violated the Vienna Convention by supporting Iranian civil society.
- The dispute centers on 'Villa Zadig,' a French Embassy cultural project promoting exchanges with students and artists, though Iranian officials characterized a July 19 meeting at artist Arya Kasaei's home as a site of 'illegal presence.'
- During the July 19 meeting, Iranian security forces arrested artists Arya Kasaei and Elaheh Naghilou while the French cultural attaché was present; Iran's Intelligence Ministry labeled the gathering a 'major case of foreign infiltration' and interference.
- French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot denounced the event as an 'extremely serious act of intimidation by the Iranian security services,' stating the diplomats were detained without reason while supporting Iranian civil society.
- Tehran remains highly sensitive to perceived Western meddling in internal affairs, particularly following attacks in late February; the Intelligence Ministry accused France of operating a 'wide-ranging project aimed at exerting influence' and preparing actions against Iranian independence.
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The news was announced by French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot in a post on X.
Two Iranian diplomats in Paris will be evicted in the next few days. Jean-Noël Barrot thus responds to the violence suffered on 19 July in Tehran by two French agents, arrested and then detained....
These two diplomats "will be expelled in the next few days", after Tehran has decreed persona non grata two diplomats from the French embassy.
The French Foreign Minister, Jean-Noel Barrot, has advanced on Tuesday the expulsion from the country of two Iranian diplomats, declared 'non grata' people, a measure that will take place 'in the next few days' in response to the arrest of two members of the French diplomatic corps in the Asian country on 19 July. Barrot has pointed out on his social networks that he has already anticipated that the arrest of two workers of the French Embassy in…
France to expel two Iranian diplomats: foreign minister
"Two Iranian diplomats in France will be expelled in the coming days," Jean-Noel Barrot said on X, adding the move was a consequence of the "intolerable" treatment of the French diplomats who were briefly detained last month in Tehran over accusations of "interference". The Iranian foreign ministry on Monday said it had informed France that the two French diplomats would not be allowed to return to Iran. Barrot on July 20 said the pair -- one …
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