TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei said on Monday that Tehran had received no concrete proposal from European countries for negotiations, questioning whether recent European calls for diplomacy reflected a genuine change in policy.
TEHRAN — French police arrested 1,314 people and sealed off city centers on Saturday as hundreds of thousands marched for a second consecutive weekend. Rather than addressing the root causes of the nationwide unrest, the government focused entirely on silencing the demonstrators through state repression.
Hundreds of protests were held in France Saturday as nationwide anger grows over the cost of living, with security forces massing to prevent a repeat of violence that marred demonstrations last week, AFP reported.
TEHRAN — It started with teenagers blockading their schools. Three weeks later (October 17), about 550,000 people marched through French towns and cities, according to Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez. Unions say 800,000.
TEHRAN — Overnight curfews in Paris, Lyon, Lille, and Nice will do nothing to check the expanding anti-government uprising across France, according to a legal representative for the Yellow Vests movement.
France is once again facing mounting social protest as the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) movement resurfaces alongside student protests, reflecting widespread frustration over soaring prices, deteriorating public services, and economic inequality.
TEHRAN — France spent Sunday sweeping up after its worst street unrest in years. A town hall lies gutted in Limoges, about 1,800 people are under arrest, and as of writing this, the government has yet to say what it will do next.
A wave of mass protests swept across France Saturday, with dozens of peaceful marches taking place alongside scenes of violent clashes between demonstrators and police forces, Politico reported.
TEHRAN— Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei has criticized 'France’s contradictory approach' to nuclear weapons, questioning why Paris considers its own nuclear deterrent essential to national security while insisting that Iran must never possess nuclear weapons, despite Tehran’s stated commitment to the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
TEHRAN — Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei has called on France to respect human rights and the right to peaceful protest, criticizing 'contradictory approaches by French officials toward demonstrations in Iran and France.'
