“I am an intelligence and operational agent at the DGSE (Directorate General of External Security). My code name is Cécile Dirécley ». In a broken, barely audible voice Cécile Kohler, 37, appears enveloped in a blue veil on Channel 1, the propaganda channel of Iranian television. It is October 6, 2022, it has been five months since the young woman was arrested. In the video, the hostage continues his “confessions”: “The money that we gave could be used by the people who are striking (…) to hold the strike and it could also be used to buy off the demonstrators (…) that is to say, to employ people to demonstrate”. His companion, Jacques Paris, 69, also appears on screen. “ I was recruited by the DGSE in 2000. The objectives of the DGSE were to put pressure on the (Iranian) government. “.
Cécile Kohler speaks again: “We were in Iran to prepare the conditions for the revolution in Iran, and the overthrow of the Islamic Iranian regime to replace it with a pro-imperialist regime in the service of the French and the Americans”.
