Yesterday, Iran accused two representatives of the French trade unions, who were arrested on May 11, of violating the country’s security.
Cecil Koehler, a spokeswoman for the National Confederation of Education, Culture and Skills for Workers, and her deputy, Jacques Paris, were arrested while on a tourist trip to Iran over the Easter holidays, a French trade union source said.
Judiciary spokesman Masoud Staichi said during a press conference in Tehran that the two Frenchmen are “accused of collaborating and conspiring to undermine the country’s security.”
Iran is still looking for four diplomats who went missing in Lebanon in 1982.
At the same time, Iran confirmed that it continues to “seriously” search for four of its citizens with diplomatic status, who mysteriously disappeared in 1982 during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
“We are seriously following the procedures to ascertain the fate of the four diplomats kidnapped by the Zionist entity four decades ago,” the Iranian Foreign Ministry said on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of this event.
The statement stated that the military attache of the Iranian embassy in Beirut Ahmad Motavaselyan, charge d’affaires of the embassy Seyyed Mohsen Mousavi, embassy employee Taki Rastkar and photographer Kazem Ikhwan were abducted.
