Iran on Thursday published video showing two detained French citizens purportedly confessing to acting on behalf of a French security service.
The scenes were published amid ongoing protests roiling the country that Tehran has sought to describe as a foreign plot instead of local anger over the death of a 22-year-old detained by the country’s morality police.
The video released by the state-run IRNA news agency showed two French citizens, Cecile Kohler and Jacques Paris, who are unionists associated with France’s National Federation of Education, Culture and Vocational Training.
Iran, which long has used detained Westerners as bargaining chips in negotiations, previously has offered no public evidence to support the spying accusations.
The European Union will weigh possible sanctions in coming weeks against Iran, Josep Borrell, the 27-nation bloc’s foreign policy chief, said Thursday. He declined to describe the measures to be considered when the E.U.’s foreign ministers meet in Luxembourg on Oct. 17.
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