Iranian state television released a video on Thursday in which two French citizens in Iran in May for ‘espionage’ appeared to admit to acting on behalf of a French security service, amid weeks of unrest that has linked Tehran to enemies strangers.
The French foreign ministry accused Iran of the practices of “the worst dictatorial regimes” over the video confessions and flatly denied that the two were members of French intelligence agencies.
Iranian intelligence services said in May they had arrested two Europeans for allegedly fomenting “insecurity” in Iran.
France condemned and demanded the immediate release of Cécile Kohler and her companion Jacques Paris.
“I am Cécile Kohler, I am an intelligence and operations officer at the DGSE (General Directorate of External Security)… We were in Iran to prepare the ground for the revolution and the overthrow of the regime of Islamic Iran,” Kohler said in the Headscarf video.
