On July 20, local time, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrow said that two French embassy staff in Iran were detained for several hours and interrogated by Iranian security services on the evening of the 19th. One of them was also treated harshly. The two were later released and returned to the French Embassy in Iran. They are currently in a safe state and are expected to return to France within the next few hours. Barrow denounced this as “an extremely serious act of intimidation” carried out by Iran's security services against French diplomats, saying Iran “blatantly violates diplomatic immunity.” He said that serious representations have been made to Iran's foreign minister in this regard, and stressed that this “extremely serious and unacceptable” violation of the personal safety of French diplomats “will never be without consequences” and that the French side will respond to it. Up to now, the French side has not announced the specific reasons why the two diplomats were detained, and the Iranian government has not publicly responded to this matter.

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