France tells citizens to leave Iran
NZPA-Reuter Paris The French Government announced the recall of its ambassador from Iran as Teheran radio reported he. was being ordered out because France refused to extradite the former Iranian President. Abolhassan BaniSadr. The French Government also asked its citizens in Iran to return home immediately after a week of anti-French demonstrations outside its Teheran embassy’. A Presidential communique. which said the Ambassador (Mr Guy Georgy) was being recalled -for consultations. said the demonstrations could lead to uncontrollable actions which might
put French nationals in danger. The demonstrations started last week after France granted political asylum to Mr Bani-Sadr, who had been hiding in Teheran for six weeks after being stripped of his military command. and then the presidency. Militant Iranian students seized the United States Embassy in Teheran in November. 1979, and held 52 Americans hostage for 14 months after the former President Jimmy Carter allowed the late Shah to enter the United States for cancer treatment. Teheran radio, monitored by Reuter, said Mr Georgy had been ordered to leave
the country within three days.
A few French Embassy staff will remain, but about 100 French citizens, including 15 diplomats, are expected to return.
Relations between the two countries are at their lowest since Mr Bani-Sadr and the religious leader. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeiny, left together from exile in France in February, 1979, to lead the Iranian revolution after the Shah was ousted.
France appeared to try to ease tensions by stopping news interviews by Mr BaniSadr. and releasing three missile-launching patrol boats ordered by Iran but held for political and economic reasons.
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