Iran’s decision to reset the researcher will “reduce trust” between the two countries, warned France, in the middle of the Iranian nuclear negotiation.
Le Monde with AFP and Reuters
The Franco-Iranian anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah was again incarcerated at Evin Prison, Iran, reported on Wednesday 12 January, his support committee in a statement broadcast on Twitter. “We are learning with stupor and indignation the reincarceration in Evin Prison of Fariba Adelkhah,” he announced, denouncing “cynical” acts of Iranian power who would use the case of the researcher at “external or indoor purposes. which remain opaque “.
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“While the Pandemic of Covid continues to beat full, the Iranian government deliberately endangers the health and even the life of Fariba Adelkhah – the death in detention of the poet and director Baktash Abtin, Saturday [January 8], having demonstrated its disability or evil in wanting to guarantee the security of its detainees, “the committee judges.
“The decision of its reincarceration, which we condemn, can only have negative consequences for the relationship between France and Iran and reduce the trust between our two countries,” said the French ministry in a statement Foreign affairs, demanding its “immediate release”. Iran, which does not recognize dual nationality, has systematically rejected France’s calls to its release.
Means of pressure for Iran
Arrested in June 2019 and sentenced in May 2020 to five years in prison for national security, she was at home judgments since October 2020. Iran holds several binational nationals and another French citizen, Benjamin Brière. They are sometimes accused of espionage. In recent years, the Islamic Republic has carried out several detainees with foreign countries.
Iran and several countries (France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, China, and the United States indirectly) relaunched in November 2021 the talks to save the agreement on The Iranian nuclear 2015 (JCPOA), supposed to prevent Tehran from acquiring atomic weapon.
These discussions aim to bring back to the Washington Covenant, who left it in 2018, and to bring Tehran back to respect for his commitments, broken in response to the recovery of American sanctions.
This announcement concerning M me Adelkhah occurs on the same day as that of the British Council, a body to promote British culture abroad, on the return to the United Kingdom of one of His employees, Aras Amiri, after his acquittal in Iran, where she had been sentenced in 2019 for espionage.