Iran and France are set to exchange ambassadors, officials say, after months of tensions including over an alleged Iranian plot to bomb an opposition rally near Paris.
Bahram Ghasemi, a former envoy to Spain and Italy and current spokesman of the foreign ministry, has been appointed as Iran’s new ambassador to France, an official source in Tehran says.
In Paris, the Official Gazette says that Philippe Thiebaud, a former envoy to Pakistan who once represented France at the UN atomic watchdog, has been appointed as ambassador to the Islamic republic.
Bahram Ghasemi, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman, gives an interview with AFP in the capital Tehran on October 2, 2018. (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)
Ghasemi and Thiebaud will fill posts that had been vacant for more than six months after a series of diplomatic fallouts between France and Iran broke out last year.
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