Iran sends note of protest to France over embassy attack in Paris

The Foreign Ministry of Iran sent a note of protest to its colleagues in France in connection with the attack on the Iranian diplomatic mission in Paris, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani Chafi said, Report informs via TASS.

“We strongly condemn this action. The attack on a diplomatic establishment is an attempt to interfere with the work of the consular department of the embassy and an encroachment on the rights of citizens applying to the diplomatic mission to receive consular services,” Fars news agency quoted him as saying. “We expressed our protest in an official note that we sent to the French authorities."

“Several days before this attack, we warned the French government that someone might attack our diplomatic institutions, and asked the authorities of France and a number of other European countries to strengthen the security of Iranian embassies,” said a representative of the Iranian Foreign Ministry. Kanaani Chafi also emphasized that, according to the Vienna Convention, the French government bears full responsibility for the safety of the embassy and other diplomatic facilities of Iran on its territory.

On September 9, the Tasnim agency reported that an unknown person set fire to the back door of the Iranian embassy in Paris, where the consular section of the diplomatic mission is located. The next day, the ISNA agency reported that the diplomatic mission of the Islamic Republic had resumed its work. According to the latest reports, the attacker threw a Molotov cocktail at the embassy door.