{"id":452169,"date":"2025-09-26T06:23:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T06:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/452169\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T06:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T06:23:16","slug":"france-withdraws-its-lawsuit-against-iran-at-the-icj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/452169\/","title":{"rendered":"France Withdraws Its Lawsuit Against Iran at the ICJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n        26 September 2025&#13;<br \/>\n        9:22 AM&#13;\n    <\/p>\n<p>                            &#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WANA (Sep 26) \u2013<\/strong> The International Court of Justice (ICJ), based in The Hague, announced on Thursday, September 25, 2025, that it has closed France\u2019s case against Iran at the country\u2019s request.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>France had filed the lawsuit in May 2025, arguing that Iran violated international law by detaining two of its citizens \u2014 40-year-old C\u00e9cile Kohler and 72-year-old Jacques Paris. Iranian authorities had arrested the pair in May 2022, accusing them of spying for Israel. Paris claimed that Tehran\u2019s actions breached its obligations under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The decision to end the proceedings came just one day after French President Emmanuel Macron met with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. Following the meeting, Macron wrote on X that he had called for the release of the French nationals, while Pezeshkian said the two sides had discussed ways to resolve the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the ICJ, Iran did not oppose France\u2019s request to withdraw the case.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-40633 size-full\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WANA-Pezeshkian-and-Macron-.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                            &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; 26 September 2025&#13; 9:22 AM&#13; &#13; WANA (Sep 26) \u2013 The International Court of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36,33909,774],"class_list":{"0":"post-452169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-icj","12":"tag-iran"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115269166875187144","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}