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- French authorities upheld a court-ordered ban on the NCRI rally despite the group's appeal.
- Police arrested 20 people after dispersing a protest that had gathered at Paris’s Place Vauban.
- The ban was announced hours after a phone call between French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot and Iranian counterpart Abbas Araqchi about ending the Iran war.
- France’s foreign ministry denied that the rally ban was connected to the ministers’ discussion.
