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Source: https://jewishonliner.org/p/decades-long-iranian-infiltration-campaign-exposed-in-france
Decades-Long Iranian Infiltration Campaign Exposed in France
(Jewish Onliner) A report commissioned by the France 2050 think tank and released in October 2025 has unveiled a systematic campaign by the Islamic Republic of Iran to infiltrate French society through espionage networks, political influence operations, and criminal proxies. The report reveals how Tehran has built ideological and operational networks across France's political landscape, universities, media outlets, and criminal underworld over 48 years, with Jewish communities and pro-Israel voices among the primary targets of what the report calls Iran's "mechanics of chaos." "Shiite expansionism will always be the regime's guiding principle, as is the regime's intrinsic violence," said Frederic Encel, a Middle East specialist who contributed to the report, noting that Tehran's strategy relies on propaganda, infiltration, and physical elimination. In spring 2024, French authorities arrested Bashir Biazar, a high-level agent of the Quds Force, the external operations unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Biazar was accused of surveilling Iranian diaspora families and conducting infiltration operations at local universities to recruit sympathizers and spread pro-regime narratives. Iranian intelligence maintains active surveillance lists of synagogues, Jewish schools, opposition gatherings, and cultural events throughout France. On May 7, 2024, Iranian opposition protesters were violently assaulted outside the Paris embassy by six masked attackers who emerged from the embassy.