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TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 4286
INFO RUEHGB/AMEMBASSY BAGHDAD PRIORITY 0125
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S E C R E T PARIS 001709 
 
SIPDIS 
 
EUR/PRA FOR MATTHEW HARDIMAN; ISN/CATR FOR MARGARET MITCHELL 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 9/09/2023 
TAGS: FR PARM PREL MASS ETTC FGM AU IR
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE ON SNIPER RIFLES DELIVERED 
 
REF: STATE 96555 
 
Classified By: Political Minister-Counselor Kathleen H. Allegrone, reas 
ons 1.4 (b) and (d). 
 
(S) Poloffs delivered reftel demarche September 11 to Franck 
Gellet, MFA DAS-equivalent for Iran, Amb. Xavier Rose, 
Inter-ministerial Coordinator for Iraqi Reconstruction, and 
Arnaud Pescheux, desk officer for Iran.  Gellet agreed that 
the sale should be prevented and accepted the non-paper for 
action.  He asked whether the Department had any information 
on the timing of the intended delivery, and also asked that 
the demarche be repeated to appropriate French security 
services via other channels.  Post will follow-up and report 
any further substantive developments. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Please visit Paris' Classified Website at: 
http://www.intelink.sgov.gov/wiki/Portal:Fran ce 
 
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