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France's Dangerous Partner Hedayat Mostowfi June 04, 2004 What is a matter of Euros and dollars for the French government is a matter of life and death for the Iranian people. The French government is one of the strongest critics of the situation in Iraq. One might find this concern sincere at the first glance, but a closer look reveals that for the French government, lucrative deals take precedence over human rights. Our historic memory is not that short to forget that the French government was Saddam Hussein’s major trade partner. With Saddam’s fall, French lost a major interlocutor in...

Our War With France NY Times By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN September 18, 2003 It's time we Americans came to terms with something: France is not just our annoying ally. It is not just our jealous rival. France is becoming our enemy. If you add up how France behaved in the run-up to the Iraq war (making it impossible for the Security Council to put a real ultimatum to Saddam Hussein that might have avoided a war), and if you look at how France behaved during the war (when its foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin, refused to answer the question of...

France Detains Members of Iran Opposition AP ^ | 06/17/03 | ELAINE GANLEY Posted on 06/17/2003 4:56 AM PDT by nypokerface PARIS - Masked and heavily armed French police raided the offices Tuesday of an Iranian opposition group accused of links to terrorism, rounding up 165 members and seizing $1.3 million in American currency, the government said. On the orders of France's leading anti-terrorism judge, some 1,300 police poured into the streets and blew down doors of offices of the People's Mujahedeen of Iran early Tuesday in a vast sweep of sites north and west of Paris. Police also seized...

Thousands more protest in main US and European cities By SMCCDI (Information Service) Jul 9, 2003, 4:43pm Thousands more of members of Iranian Diaspora gathered, today, in order to protest against the illegitimate rule of the Islamic republic regime and to ask for its change into a Secular regime. Thousands of Iranians living in main US gathered in cities, such as, Washington DC, New York, Austin, Chicago, Phoenix, Atlanta, Dallas, Seattle and San Francisco; An thousands of others, living in Europe gathered in cities, such as, Paris, Hamburg, Stockholm, London, Den Hague, Oslo, Brussels and Barcelona. All of them asked...