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France says two of its citizens detained in Iran, calls for their immediate release as admits nuclear talks talled
Follow up to this story from yesterday. [IsraelTimes] Day after Iranians said they arrested two Europeans for plotting ’instability,’ Gay Paree reveals the pair are its nationals, condemns the detentionTwo French citizens have been detained in Iran, the French foreign ministry said in a statement on Thursday, calling for their "immediate release." The pair, whom the ministry did not name, are the latest Western nationals to be detained in Iran  ...The word Iranis a cognate form of Aryan.The abbreviation IRGCis the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either Duceor Führeror maybe both... in what activists argue is a deliberate policy of hostage-taking by the Islamic Theocratic Republicto extract concessions from the West. Iran’s intelligence ministry had announced a day earlier that two "Europeans" had been arrested on accusations of seeking to "destabilize the country." It did not identify the nationality of those held. The French foreign ministry said that La Belle France’s ambassador to Tehran was seeking consular access to the detainees, while it also summoned the Iranian ambassador in Gay Paree. "The French government condemns these baseless arrests," said the foreign ministry statement. "It calls for the immediate release of these two Frenchies and will remain fully mobilized to this end." Christophe Lalande, federal secretary of La Belle France’s FNEC FP-FO education union, told Rooters that he suspects the two citizens are a member of his staff and her husband. The pair have gone missing while on vacation in Iran, he explained. The staff member was due back in La Belle France earlier this week. Though admitting no "absolute certainty," Lalande said there was a "strong presumption" that they were being held. French source links Iran’s ‘intensifying provocations’ to stalled nuclear talks [IsraelTimes] Talks between Iran  ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....and world powers over reviving the 2015 nuclear deal are currently in a state of deadlock, a French diplomatic source says, expressing pessimism over the prospects of progress. The talks have stalled since mid-March as negotiators seek to return to the landmark accord that curtailed the Islamic republic’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief. Posted by: trailing wife 2022-05-13 |
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