Before immigrating to France from Beirut in the midst of Lebanon’s brutal civil war in the 1970s, Jacques Saadé had been forced to Syria after the Baathist regime the family’s vegetable oil and tobacco business.

Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/02/04/france-shipping-marseille-cma-cgm-saade/

They fought alongside the Baathist army against their fellow Iranians and their agents carried out lots of assassinations against Iranian civilians and government officials throughout the 8-year Iraqi-imposed war on Iran between 1980 and 1988.

Source: https://en.mehrnews.com/news/205122/Iran-politicians-scientists-victims-of-west-backed-terrorism