{"id":78761,"date":"2026-09-19T11:03:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T10:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=78761"},"modified":"2026-09-19T11:03:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T10:03:58","slug":"dzw-7ba124694e03c4ec1211aaf7ae2a3b918ed159e4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=78761","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Foreign Minister Calls Out France on Algerian Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian <a class=\"dzsl-auto-link dzsl-internal\" data-dzsl=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=78743\">Foreign Minister<\/a> Abbas Araqchi recently voiced strong support for <a class=\"dzsl-auto-link dzsl-internal\" data-dzsl=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?cat=1\">Algeria<\/a>&#39;s historical claims against France, publicly recalling colonial crimes and demanding apologies. In a post on his X account, Araqchi criticized <a class=\"dzsl-auto-link dzsl-external\" data-dzsl=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:Search?search=French%20Foreign%20Minister%20Jean-No%C3%ABl\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">French Foreign Minister Jean-No\u00ebl<\/a> Barrot, stating that France refuses to apologize for its colonial actions in Algeria.<\/p>\n<p>Araqchi specifically cited the killing of 1.5 million Algerians during the country&#39;s War of Independence, which spanned from 1954 to 1962. He highlighted that Paris has officially recorded less than one-tenth of these deaths, despite France having ruled Algeria as a colony from 1830 until its independence in 1962. This public statement by the Iranian diplomat emphasizes a long-standing point of contention for Algeria regarding its past with France.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian Foreign Minister&#39;s remarks underscore the international recognition of Algeria&#39;s historical narrative concerning its colonial past. His call for France to acknowledge and apologize for colonial crimes reinforces Algeria&#39;s consistent position on these historical events, lending significant diplomatic weight to its quest for historical justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi publicly supported Algeria&#8217;s historical claims against France, recalling the deaths of 1.5 million Algerians during the War of Independence and criticizing France&#8217;s refusal to apologize for colonial crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algeria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78762,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78761\/revisions\/78762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}