The World - News from Aug. 26, 1987
French officials welcomed home a diplomat’s wife and child from Iran--the first people allowed to leave the besieged French Embassy in Tehran since the two countries broke diplomatic relations on July 17, each preventing the other’s embassy personnel from going home. In Paris, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Estelle Torri, wife of First Secretary Paul Torri, and their 9-week-old son, Charles, were given permission Monday to leave. “But this does not mean we have come any closer to resolving the deadlock with Iran,” the spokesman warned. He said the crisis will continue until Tehran official Wahid Gordji leaves the Iranian Embassy in Paris and submits to questioning in connection with a wave of bomb attacks.
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