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Sarkozy moves to free Frenchwoman in Iran
Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:14:19 GMT
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is working to secure
the release of a French academic standing trial in
Tehran over espionage charges, his office says.
“He is increasing his contacts with people who have the
influence to bring this affair to a rapid conclusion and
secure her release. That is the main priority in this
case,” an advisor told reporters on Monday.
The 24-year-old French teaching assistant Clotilde
Reiss as well as French embassy staffer Nazak Afshar
are among hundreds of defendants tried on various
charges after the re-election of Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the Ji.ne 12 poll triggered
widespread protests across the country.
Reiss, a lecturer at the Isfahan Technical University, told an Iranian court on Sunday that she had written about
Iran's nuclear power program as well as the post-vote developments for the French Embassy in Tehran.
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France has denied that Reiss was a spy.
“Do you tlink my country would be so naive and shorthanded as to send a 23-year-old woman to spy in Iran?
That's stupid, it's not possible,” French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner told reporters during a recent visit to
Lebanon.
Iran blames foreign countries of inciting the violent post-election urrest. France, for its part, denies the charges.
However, in an interview with a French paper, Kouchner defended its Tehran embassy's readiness to give refuge
to injured Iranian protesters fleeing police.
‘What was said Saturday was true. If protestors, who were being chased had sought refuge in the French
Embassy, the instruction was to open the door,” Kouchner told the Le Parisien/Aujourd'hui en France
newspapers on Monday.
‘This is a European order. This is in our humanitarian and democratic tradition,” he added.
France and the European Union have criticized the response to days of opposition protests in Iran that left at
least 30 people dead.
On July 6, Sarkozy strongly criticized Tehran, saying Iranians “deserve better than the leaders they have today.”
Supporters of defeated presidential candidates say the results were rigged. Iranian autherities, however, have
rejected any allegations of fraud in the disputed presidential election.
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