{"id":550837,"date":"2026-07-20T16:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/550837\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T16:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:45:11","slug":"french-embassy-staff-harassed-detained-by-iranian-security-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/550837\/","title":{"rendered":"French embassy staff harassed, detained by Iranian security forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Two employees of France\u2019s embassy in Tehran were aggressively harassed and detained by Iranian security forces on Sunday, French Foreign Minister Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot confirmed in a Monday X\/Twitter post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Barrot stated that both staff members were detained and interrogated for several hours without reason, with one being physically assaulted in the process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">According to Barrot, the employees were eventually allowed to return to the French embassy and are safe, but will be returning to France in the coming hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cI informed the Iranian Foreign Minister that this extremely serious and unacceptable violation of the integrity of our agents cannot go without consequences,\u201d Barrot stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">He decried the incident as \u201cshocking\u201d and a \u201cflagrant violation\u201d of diplomatic immunities and privileges afforded to embassy staff.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two employees of France\u2019s embassy in Tehran were aggressively harassed and detained by Iranian security forces on Sunday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[163809,58176,2226,42,87,43,3336,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-550837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-basij","tag-foreign-embassy","tag-france","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-news","tag-tehran","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}