PARIS, Jan 14 (Reuters) – France suspects that Iran’s crackdown on demonstrations across the country is the most violent in the country’s contemporary history, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Wednesday.
“What we suspect is that this is the most violent repression in Iran’s contemporary history and that it must absolutely stop,” Barrot said.
(Reporting by Benoit Van Overstraeten and John Irish;Editing by Louise Rasmussen)
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