DUBAI, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Iran said on Monday that two French embassy employees involved in \u200ca diplomatic dispute last month would not be \u200callowed to return to Iran.<\/p>\n
Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said the \u200btwo had violated the Vienna Convention – which defines the rules and privileges of diplomatic missions – engaging in activities supporting Iranian civil society.<\/p>\n
“Insisting that these individuals were engaged \u200cin activities related \u2060to supporting civil society is itself an admission that the Vienna Convention was violated,” \u2060Baghaei told a weekly press conference, without elaborating.<\/p>\n
Tehran has long been highly sensitive to what it sees as \u200bWestern meddling \u200bin its internal affairs, \u200bespecially since the U.S. \u200cand Israel launched attacks on Iran in late February in a conflict that continues to rage.<\/p>\n
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot, in an interview with France Inter last month, said the mission of the two \u200cembassy employees concerned was to “develop programmes \u200bsupporting Iranian civil society, students, \u200band artists (…) France \u200bis one of the countries in \u200cthe world that does the \u200bmost for Iranian \u200bcivil society, and we have paid the price for it.”<\/p>\n
France summoned Iran’s charge d’affaires on July \u200b21 after \u200caccusing Iranian security forces of detaining and physically \u200bintimidating its embassy staff in Tehran.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Dubai \u200bNewsroomEditing by Gareth Jones)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUBAI, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Iran said on Monday that two French embassy employees involved in \u200ca diplomatic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[37875,55183,341,59472,5782,69905,69904,34,39591],"class_list":["post-252552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-civil-society","tag-diplomatic-dispute","tag-diplomatic-missions","tag-employees","tag-esmaeil-baghaei","tag-france-inter","tag-french-embassy","tag-iran","tag-vienna-convention"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117110570585007831","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}