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French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the order to bring the ambassadors back to Paris 'immediately', the first time such a move has been taken regarding the US since the the American war of independence, was made at the request of French President Emmanuel Macron.

The announcement follows French inspectors' raids on three Renault sites this month in a probe into the veracity of the carmaker's emissions claims.

France is repatriating a number of diplomats and their families from Iran following last week's attack on the British embassy in Tehran.