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2022-10-08 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Iran state TV airs alleged 'confessions' of two detained French nationals
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[Rudaw] Iranian state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
broadcast Thursday what it said were "confessions" by two Frenchies, five months after they were arrested in the Islamic republic.
In a video aired on the Arabic-language al-Alam channel, French teachers' union official Cecile Kohler is heard saying that she is an "agent of the DGSE" French intelligence service.
Kohler and her partner Jacques Gay Paree have been detained in Iran
 ...The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both...
since May 7 and stand accused by authorities of seeking to stir labour unrest during a wave of teachers' strikes earlier this year.
Iran said later that it had arrested two Frenchies who had entered the country on tourist visas.
The pair were "accused of association and collusion with the aim of undermining the security of the country", judiciary front man Massoud Setayeshi said in July.
La Belle France has condemned the arrest of Kohler and Gay Paree as "baseless" and has called for their immediate release.
In the recording released Thursday, Kohler says the couple were in Iran "to prepare the conditions for the revolution and the overthrow of the Iranian Islamist regime".
She said they had planned to finance strikes and demonstrations and even use weapons "to fight against the police".
According to Jacques Gay Paree, who was also shown in the video, the DGSE's objectives "were to put pressure on the Iranian government".
Kohler and Gay Paree are among the latest Western citizens to be detained in Iran, in what activist muppets claim is a deliberate policy to extract concessions from the West -- accusations rejected by Tehran.
- 'EXTRACTING CONFESSIONS' -
Rights groups based outside Iran have repeatedly accused the Islamic republic of extracting "confessions" from detained foreigners and Iranian campaigners under duress and then broadcasting them on state media as a propaganda tool.
A 2020 report by the Gay Paree-based International Federation for Human Rights and its member organization Justice for Iran said Iranian state media had broadcast over 350 such confessions in the space of a decade.
It said such "confessions" were "systematically broadcast" by Iranian state-owned media "to instill fear and repress dissent" and victims had been "subjected to torture and ill-treatment".
Thursday's broadcast comes amid a crackdown on the most recent protest movement in which security forces have also arrested nine foreigners -- including from La Belle France, Germany, Italia, the Netherlands and Poland.
Iran's judicial authority issued an order in October 2020 banning torture, the use of "forced confessions", solitary confinement, illegal police custody and other violations of defendants' rights.
That came a week after controversy sparked by videos posted on social media showing coppers beating detainees in pickup trucks in the middle of a street. 
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