Hojjatoleslam Mohammad Jafar Montazeri who was speaking in the funeral ceremony of martyrs of Defenders of the Shrine on Wednesday, told reporters that the foreign policy machinery should address the issue strongly and the illegally-acting diplomats should be deported.
In a related story earlier Wednesday, a security official of IRGC intelligence organization in Kurdistan province was quoted by Mehr News commenting on a suspicious vehicle doing explorative activity near sensitive military centers in the west.
According to this security official, a suspicious Pajero vehicle with a diplomatic license plate driving through Saqqez County in Kurdistan Province on 13 August was closely monitored by the security forces and finally stopped in the vicinity of Irankhah village.
Two diplomats were Sébastien Surun, French political attaché, and Charlotte Lopez, second secretary of the British Embassy in Tehran.
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