Iran says summoned French envoy over ‘interference’ in internal affairs
“Yesterday, the French ambassador in Tehran was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where it was stressed that the French government must cease such actions and such interference in Iran’s internal affairs under misleading labels,” said the ministry’s spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei in a weekly press briefing.
Iran’s foreign ministry said on Monday it had summoned the French ambassador to Tehran to protest the conduct of two diplomats who were briefly detained earlier this month.
On July 20, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said two French diplomats in Iran were targeted by Iranian officials the day before and suffered “an extremely serious act of intimidation” by the Islamic republic’s security services.
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