The accusations of the Islamic Republic have occurred while the regime has condemned five demonstrators to death since Sunday.
Le Monde with AFP and reuters
The cloth burns between France and Iran. Iranian Minister of the Interior Ahmad Vahidi said on Wednesday, November 16, that several French intelligence agents were arrested during demonstrations in the Islamic Republic.
“Persons of other nationalities were arrested during the riots, some of which played an important role. There are elements of the French intelligence services which will be treated in accordance with the law,” said Ahmad Vahidi to the Iranian public television. France categorically denied the “false statements” of the Iranian Minister of the Interior concerning the arrest of several French intelligence services, said the French Foreign Ministry of Foreign on Wednesday.
French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said on Saturday that seven French nationals were currently detained in Iran. France denounced at the beginning of October “practices worthy of the show trials of the worst dictatorial regimes” after the broadcasting of a video staging “the pretended confessing” of a couple of French nationals, Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris, arrested last May and “arbitrarily prisoners” in Iran. France “recalls that it considers that all these detentions are arbitrary,” said the Quai-d’Orsay in a press release transmitted to Reuters on Wednesday.
vast protest movement
Iranian accusations arise in a context of accelerating the death sentences of anti -regime demonstrators. The Iranian authorities have faced a vast protest movement since the death, on September 16, of Mahsa Amini, after her arrest by the Police of mores for offense to the strict dress code which forces women to wear the Islamic veil in public.
Three new people charged with their involvement in the demonstrations were sentenced to death on Wednesday, said official Iranian agency Mizan Online. These death penalties have brought to five the number of people sentenced to capital punishment since the start of the demonstrations. The trial of these five people opened on October 29 before the Tehran revolutionary court, according to Mizan Online. A first conviction was announced on Sunday, a second Tuesday. Iranian justice has recently announced that it had charged more than a thousand individuals related to demonstrations, which the Iranian authorities called “riots”.
Emmanuel Macron calls Iran “in calm”
Emmanuel Macron returned to the Iranian crisis at the end of the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, by denouncing “increasing aggressiveness of Iran” with regard to France by “inadmissible hostages” . He called Tehran to “return to calm and the spirit of cooperation”.
The French president also mentioned Iranian attacks on Iraqi soil. Iran launched a new series of missile and drone strikes on Monday against Iranian Kurdish opposition groups based in Kurdistan of Iraq, neighboring territory, killing at least one person and injuring eight, according to local officials.
“France has always respected the leaders, the Iranian people. We have always been in a discussion approach, respect. I think that the choices that have been made in recent months do not go in this sense on the side of Iran, so I call for return to calm, respect for regional stability, respect for French nationals, “added Emmanuel Macron.
While “fully respecting the sovereignty of Iran”, he praised “courage and legitimacy” of “this revolution of Iranian women and youth”, which “defend our universal principles”. “I say” our “, I am not talking about France: they are universal, they are also those of our charter of the United Nations: equality between women and men, the dignity of each human being”, a- he added.