Author: Press Room

Tehran says the release of Bernard Phelan and Benjamin Briere, jailed for alleged spying, is a ‘humanitarian action’.Iran has released two French citizens, Bernard Phelan and Benjamin Briere, from a prison in the northeastern city of Mashhad, according to French President Emmanuel Macron. “We will continue to work towards the return of those of our fellow nationals who are still detained in Iran,” Macron said on Friday on Twitter. Ties between France and Iran have deteriorated in recent months with Tehran’s detentions of six French nationals in what Paris has described as arbitrary arrests equivalent to state hostage-taking. Catherine Colonna,…