Among those detained in Tehran were the Deputy Ambassador of Great Britain and the wife of the Cultural Attache of the Austrian Embassy.
Employees of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps detained several foreign diplomats in Iran, including British Deputy Chief of Mission Giles Whitaker. On Wednesday, July 6, Iran’s Fars agency reported.
It was learned that the alien was suspected of espionage. The diplomat allegedly took soil samples.
According to the country’s intelligence agency, the samples were taken near the site where missile tests were conducted in the desert exclusion zone in the city of Shehdad in the Iranian province of Kerman.
The other two detained foreigners were the wife of an Austrian cultural attache in Iran, as well as a university professor in Poland, Maciej Walczak, who, at the time of detention, was in Iran as a tourist.
Whitaker was expelled from the area after he issued an apology, Iran’s news agency said.
However, the British Foreign Office denied the fact of incarceration on their subject.
“Reports about the detention of a British diplomat in Iran are completely false,” Reuters quoted a statement from an agency official as saying.
Dozens of dual citizens and foreigners have been arrested in Iran in recent years, mostly in cases of espionage and security, according to Reuters.
Human rights groups have accused the Islamic Republic of seeking concessions from other countries by arresting on security charges that may have been fabricated, the agency reported.
Recall that in the annexed Crimea, the so-called “court” rejected the appeal of 61-year-old Ukrainian Konstantin Shiring and upheld the sentence-12 years in prison with a sentence to be served in a strict colony of the regime in the charges of “espionage”.
Earlier in Moscow, a court convicted a Ukrainian citizen of allegedly preparing to smuggle equipment for MiG-29 military aircraft into the UAE.
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Source: korrespondent
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