France and Iran close to restoring ambassador exchange
French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told a French parliament foreign affairs committee that, as long as Tehran respects the 2015 deal restricting its nuclear technology programme from military use, Paris will agree to resuming an exchange of ambassadors after a diplomatic freeze caused last year over an alleged Iranian plan to attack opponents of the ruling regime in France.
FranceFrance and Iran are close to exchanging ambassadors after Paris suspended nominating an envoy to Tehran last year over claims Iranian intelligence officials had planned an attack on an opposition group in Paris, France's foreign minister said, reports Euronews.
"We protested vigorously against an attempted attack that was stopped in the Paris region which led us to suspend the nomination of our ambassador to Tehran, and Tehran responded reciprocally," Jean-Yves Le Drian told parliament's foreign affairs committee.
"But we are close to reaching a conclusion on this situation as long as [Iran] keeps to the 2015 [nuclear] deal."
France in October said there was no doubt Iran's intelligence ministry was behind a June plot to attack an exiled opposition group's rally outside Paris and it seized assets belonging to Tehran's intelligence services and two Iranian nationals.
