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France Flayed For Insulting Iran

Date: 26 May 2025 - 22:22

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By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

The regime in Paris, blind to realities and its unnatural or more properly immoral attachment to the illegal Zionist entity and refusal to condemn the genocide in Gaza, has made its ministers appear as goofs.
We are not concerned here about the awkward incident at Hanoi airport in Vietnam where in front of TV cameras President Emmanuel Macron while stepping off the plane seems swatted like a fly by his wife Brigitte Marie-Claude, who then refuses to hold his extended hand while climbing down.
Macron later sheepishly admitted to the press that the incident was real and did happen, without explaining what caused Brigitte to lift her two hands to slap his face, giving rise to speculations that the lady, who is 24 years older than her husband, has the habit of routinely physically beating and spanking him at home.
Do the French people deserve such a wife-dominated Head of State? Should world countries consider the French president and the cabinet of crooks he appoints as diplomats deserving respect?
Not at all, is the logical answer, especially in view of the insulting remarks of the French foreign minister towards the Islamic Republic of Iran and its citizens.
Recently at the Cannes Film Festival Jean-Noël Barrot while awarding the increasingly politicized Palme d’Or prize to an Iranian producer for a Zionist-funded film distorting the image of the Islamic Republic of Iran, called it “resistance against the Iranian regime’s oppression.”
It is obvious that Barrot is ignorant of the meaning of the words ‘resistance’ and ‘oppression’ as well as of diplomatic courtesy to respect the popular system of Islamic government in Iran, which he insolently called ‘regime’.
His intention to insult Iran and the Iranian citizens was a bid to please traitors, terrorists, and fugitives from justice given asylum in France in violation of the clauses of the UN Charter.
Prompt was the protest by Iran, which immediately summoned the French ambassador in Tehran to the Foreign Ministry to condemn Barrot’s insult and demand an explanation from Paris, which shamelessly calls the Palestinian resistance fighters ‘terrorists’ and is oppressive towards its own French citizens holding mass rallies to denounce the crimes against humanity of the Zionist regime.
Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araqchi censured his French counterpart, pointing out that Paris lacks moral credibility in human rights’ issues, “but perhaps nothing has made the hypocrisy as stark as the French approach to the Israeli regime and its war crimes.”
The French regime, which has illegally imprisoned Iranian female academic Mahdieh Esfandiary for her support for the persecuted Palestinian people, had to watch in Araqchi’s message a screenshot of France’s refusal to enforce the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu and former War Minister Yoav Gallant for their role in the Gaza genocide.
To sum up, Iran unlike France has always been on high moral ground, and does not harbour any French terrorist, traitor, escapee jailbird, and fugitive from justice, or have diplomatic ties with a murderous, racist, terroristic, and child-killing regime like the Zionist entity.