Taking foreign nationals hostage is playing with fire
With the announcement by the French Foreign Minister, two more French nationals have been arrested and imprisoned in Iran, bringing the total number of French nationals held in Iran to seven. Catherine Colonna, the French Foreign Minister, announced this news on Saturday and reacted strongly to this new development. She mentioned her tense conversation with the Foreign Minister of the current Iranian government and stated that the legal rights and consular access of these French nationals must be ensured. She referred to the recent developments in the hostage-taking of foreign nationals by the Iranian regime and said that if Iran wants to use this process to extort, it will fail.