Iran on Thursday published video showing two detained French citizens purportedly confessing to acts of espionage, as Iranian leaders sought to portray ongoing anti-government protests as a foreign plot instead of widespread anger over the death of a 22-year-old Iranian woman detained by the country's morality police.
The video released by the state-run IRNA news agency showed a woman presented as Cecile Kohler, a high school teacher and educational trade union official, alongside her partner, Jacques Paris.
The French Foreign Ministry said the "supposed confessions extracted under duress" of the detained French nationals in the video was "outrageous". "Parliament strongly condemns the widespread and disproportionate use of force by Iranian security forces against the crowds," the resolution said in part. Lawmakers also demanded that Iran "immediately and unconditionally release and drop any charges against anyone who has been imprisoned solely for exercising their rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly, as well as all other human rights defenders.
In the clips, Kohler wears a headscarf and purportedly describes herself as an "intelligence and operation agent of French foreign security service." Paris purportedly says: "Our goals in the French foreign security service is to put pressure on Iran's government."
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