The World - News from July 13, 1987
Iran said one of its diplomats traveling to Paris from Geneva was assaulted by French border police and taken to a hospital for treatment in the latest incident of recent French-Iranian antagonism. The Iranian news agency IRNA, monitored in London, said diplomat Mohsen Aminzadeh was “assaulted and badly mauled by French policemen and his papers stolen.” The news agency said the Iranian Foreign Ministry had summoned the French charge d’affaires in Tehran for an explanation of the incident. The French Foreign Ministry had no comment.
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