Iran’s Foreign Ministry announced it had summoned the French ambassador in Tehran to formally protest the conduct of two French diplomats who were briefly detained earlier this month.
During a weekly press briefing, ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei stated that the envoy was informed the French government must halt “such actions and such interference in Iran’s internal affairs under misleading labels.” Baqaei asserted the diplomats had “interfered in Iran’s internal affairs under the pretext of engaging with civil society,” adding that their actions were “in no way justified under the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.”
The move follows sharp accusations from Paris. On July 20, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot revealed that two French diplomats in Iran were targeted by Iranian officials the previous day, describing the incident as “an extremely serious act of intimidation” by the Islamic Republic’s security services. According to Barrot, both diplomats were “detained for several hours without reason, interrogated, and one of them was physically abused” before being allowed to return to the embassy.
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