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The researcher Fariba Adelkhah invited on France 24-France Info in the show Le Monde dans tous ses states (screenshot). www.youtube.com

It's been four months since the French-Iranian researcher Fariba Adelkhah is detained in Iran without knowing to this day the reasons why this anthropologist was arrested. This affair provokes very lively exchanges between Paris and Teheran.

Iran does not recognize dual citizenship for its citizens. Consequence: the French authorities could not visit Fariba Adelkhah, incarcerated in Evin prison, in the north of Tehran.

This week, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Paris was continuing its efforts " to clarify the reasons " for the arrest of the French-Iranian researcher. France considers it " indispensable and urgent that the Iranian authorities be transparent on this issue as on all the files of foreign nationals arrested in Iran ".

Statements immediately denounced as " an unacceptable interference " by Iran, which ensures that the case of Fariba Adelkhah is " under careful investigation " and which warns in passing that the remarks of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs may " complicate the judicial process ".

This case comes in a particularly delicate context, since France is currently trying to mediate between Tehran and Washington with the aim of reducing tensions in the nuclear issue.