Al-Monitor
MiddleEast · 13 mins ago
Tehran's security services did not mistreat French diplomats, Iranian ministry official quoted
DUBAI, July 22 (Reuters) - Two French diplomats at the centre of a dispute between France and Iran were not ill-treated by Iranian security personnel, according to an Iranian foreign ministry official quoted by state media on Wednesday.
France has said that the diplomats in Tehran had their phones taken, were forbidden to contact the embassy and verbally intimidated, breaking international diplomatic conventions. One of the officials, the cultural attache, was hit.
The French foreign ministry…
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