Milan, 25 May (LaPresse) – Iran has summoned the French chargé d'affaires to convey strong protests over ‘the offensive and unfounded statements made by French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot’ during the Cannes Film Festival, where Iranian director Jafar Panahi won the Palme d'Or for “Un simple accident”. This was reported by the Iranian news agency Irna. The reference is to the fact that Barrot, in a post on X, had spoken of ‘oppression by the Iranian regime’: ‘With a gesture of resistance against the oppression of the Iranian regime, Jafar Panahi wins a Palme d'Or that rekindles hope for all freedom fighters around the world,’ the French foreign minister had written. na reports that the French chargé d'affaires was summoned by Mohammad Tanhaei, head of the Second Department for Western Europe at the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During the meeting, according to the Iranian agency, Tanhaei ‘described the French Foreign Minister's statements as blatant interference in Iran's internal affairs’ and ‘condemning such irresponsible and provocative positions, he requested an official explanation from the French Foreign Ministry on the matter.’
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