{"id":330326,"date":"2025-04-09T13:52:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T12:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=330326"},"modified":"2025-04-09T13:52:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T12:52:01","slug":"iran-news-former-french-intelligence-chief-yves-bonnet-warns-against-alliance-with-irans-fanatical-theocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/iran-news-former-french-intelligence-chief-yves-bonnet-warns-against-alliance-with-irans-fanatical-theocracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News: Former French Intelligence Chief Yves Bonnet Warns Against Alliance with Iran\u2019s \u201cFanatical Theocracy\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_330327\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-330327\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-330327 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ai-generated-french-flag-and-iranian-regime-flag.jpg\" alt=\"AI-generated image showing the French and Iranian regime flags flying in opposing directions, symbolizing conflicting winds and tensions\" width=\"1000\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ai-generated-french-flag-and-iranian-regime-flag.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ai-generated-french-flag-and-iranian-regime-flag-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ai-generated-french-flag-and-iranian-regime-flag-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ai-generated-french-flag-and-iranian-regime-flag-743x420.jpg 743w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ai-generated-french-flag-and-iranian-regime-flag-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ai-generated-french-flag-and-iranian-regime-flag-696x393.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-330327\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AI-generated image showing the French and Iranian regime flags flying in opposing directions, symbolizing conflicting winds and tensions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a powerful op-ed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lejdd.fr\/International\/liran-dallie-historique-de-la-france-a-dictature-islamiste-hostile-a-nos-interets-156835\">published in <em>Le Journal du Dimanche<\/em><\/a> (<em>JDD<\/em>), Yves Bonnet, former head of France\u2019s domestic intelligence agency (DST), warned that the Iranian regime has transformed from a historical ally of France into a theocratic dictatorship that actively threatens French national interests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recalling centuries of Franco-Persian cooperation, Bonnet contrasts France\u2019s past diplomatic engagements with Persia\u2014from Louis XIV to Napoleon\u2014with today\u2019s Iran, which he describes as \u201cunder the grip of a fanatical religious caste.\u201d According to Bonnet, the 1979 revolution marked a dark turning point, turning Iran into \u201cthe base of Shiite messianism in the Middle East\u201d and \u201cthe antithesis of all our societal, moral, religious, and political values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In stark terms, Bonnet asserts: \u201cIran has become our enemy,\u201d citing the regime\u2019s \u201cabject hostage-taking\u201d and deep hostility to French interests across the region. He highlights a critical shift in the early 2000s, when elements within French and Iranian intelligence services attempted covert operations against Iranian opposition figures based in France\u2014actions that \u201ctrampled on human rights and desecrated sacred principles.\u201d Bonnet credits French judges, lawyers, and principled politicians from both the right and left for stepping in to stop what he calls \u201cstate cynicism at its worst.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hon.Yves Bonnet: For eliminating their opposition, totalitarian regimes use state terrorism under diplomatic cover, with the protection of embassies and by using their facilities.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ExpelIranDiplomatTerrorists?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ExpelIranDiplomatTerrorists<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FreeIran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FreeIran<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IStandWithMaryamRajavi?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IStandWithMaryamRajavi<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USADarFarsi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@USAdarFarsi<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Vgy6qKcwG7\">pic.twitter.com\/Vgy6qKcwG7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1092414734144598021?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Twenty years later, Bonnet notes, the Iranian regime is \u201ccompletely isolated internally and externally,\u201d while the organized opposition has only grown stronger. But he warns of the regime\u2019s renewed campaign of \u201chostage blackmail and media disinformation\u201d aimed at silencing dissidents abroad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He singles out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryam-rajavi.com\/en\/biography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryam Rajavi<\/a>, President-elect of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/national-council-of-resistance-of-iran-ncri\/\">National Council of Resistance of Iran<\/a> (NCRI), calling her \u201cthe first among\u201d Iranian democrats he has known for four decades. \u201cLet us not fall into the trap of a false alliance,\u201d Bonnet cautions, urging France to stand firmly with the Iranian Resistance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His final words serve as both warning and hope: \u201cLong live democratic Iran. <em>Our<\/em> Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a powerful op-ed published in Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD), Yves Bonnet, former head of France&rsquo;s domestic intelligence agency (DST), warned that the Iranian regime has transformed from a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":330327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[222],"class_list":["post-330326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran-resistance","tag-iranian-resistance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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