WANA (Jul 21) – France’s Foreign Ministry announced that it has summoned Iran’s chargé d’affaires in Paris following allegations that two employees of the French Embassy in Tehran were detained.

 

The move came after French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot claimed that two members of the French Embassy staff in Tehran had been detained and questioned for several hours on Sunday, with one of them allegedly subjected to physical mistreatment. He described the incident as a “clear violation of diplomatic immunity.”

 

According to Barrot, the two employees later returned to the French Embassy and are expected to leave Iran for France within the next few hours.

 

The French foreign minister also said he had raised the issue with his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, warning that France considers the alleged incident “extremely serious and unacceptable” and that it “cannot go without consequences.”

 

Iranian authorities have not yet issued an official response to the allegations made by the French foreign minister or to France’s decision to summon Iran’s chargé d’affaires in Paris.