France reacted with anger on Saturday to Iran's execution of a Paris-based dissident journalist, which it said ran counter to Tehran's international obligations.
"France condemns in the strongest possible terms this serious breach of free expression and press freedom in Iran," the foreign ministry said in a statement, after the execution of Ruhollah Zam was reported by Iranian state media.
"This is a barbaric and unacceptable act that goes against the country's international commitments."
Iranian state television said earlier Saturday that the "counter-revolutionary" Zam had been hanged after the supreme court upheld his sentence due to "the severity of the crimes" committed against the country.
Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders voiced "outrage" at the execution. It charged that Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei was "the mastermind of this execution."
Iran's Revolutionary Guards announced the arrest of Zam in October 2019, claiming he had been "directed by France's intelligence service".
State television said he was "under the protection of several countries' intelligence services."
