After Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif’s angry outburst at John Kerry on Monday night, accusing the US Secretary of State of deceptive spinning over last weekend’s Geneva nuclear talks, Iranian officials returned their attention to France on Tuesday.

Tehran sees Paris as the culprit for the failure to get an interim deal in Geneva, after French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius objected to a public recognition of Iran’s right to enrich uranium and to the construction of the Arak heavy-water nuclear reactor.

The deputy head of armed forces, Massoud Jazayeri, linked Fabius to Israel:

France is playing the only role given to it and it seems that Paris is playing this role in a ridiculous manner

France’s role has been fully exposed, it is showing this kind of behavior on the basis of a premeditated plan and it is exactly similar to the behavior that the Zionist regime has recently shown.

Meanwhile, MPs backed Zarif’s criticism of Kerry. Mansour Haqiqatpour, the Vice-Chairman of Parliament’s National Security Commission, denied Iran rather than France had blocked an agreement, while standing firm on the right to enrich:

We have not at all done this. Actually we underline the Islamic Republic of Iran’s transparent and clear stances and we will not back down even an iota from our nuclear rights.