TEHRAN: Two senior Iranian MPs accused French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius yesterday of defending Israel, which objects to world powers reaching a deal with Tehran over its controversial nuclear programme.
Hossein Naqavi Hosseini, spokesman of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee, said “the behaviour of the French representative in the nuclear talks shows that France is trying to blackmail” Iran.
“While the French people want better ties between Tehran and Paris, unfortunately the French government prefers the will of Zionist regime,” said Naqavi Hosseini.
Esmaeel Kosari, a fellow conservative and member of the committee, expressed regret that Fabius’s comments “express the positions of the Zionist (Israeli) regime, which prompts us to eye the talks with pessimism.” AFP
