Tehran

A support group calling for the release of two French academic researchers, Fariba Adelkhah and Roland Marchal, held since last June in a Tehran prison on allegations of threatening Iranian national security, has said that Adelkhah, who began a hunger strike in December, is now 'very weakened' and that Marchal is suffering worsened ill health due to his captivity.

Female flight attendants say they will refuse to fly to Iran when the airline's flights there resume after an eight-year break.

Laurent Fabius passes on an invitation from President François Hollande for Iran's head of state Hassan Rouhani to visit France in November.