Topic: Hossein Rassam
Foreign Secretary David Miliband branded Thursday a reported jail sentence handed to an embassy worker in Iran as " wholly unjustified" and urged authorities to overturn it.British embassy worker Hossein Rassam was sentenced to four years in prison this week after being ...
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband branded Thursday a reported jail sentence handed to an embassy worker in Iran as " wholly unjustified" and urged authorities to overturn it.British embassy worker Hossein Rassam was sentenced to four years in prison this week after ...
The government denied Tuesday plotting to foment a " velvet revolution" in Iran following disputed presidential elections and criticised Tehran over legal action against a British embassy staff member.A spokesman for the Foreign Office said Tehran had misunderstood the nature of diplomatic ...
An Iranian opposition leader has claimed that women and boys detained over the wave of unrest that swept the nation after the disputed presidential election were savagely raped in custody.The allegations by defeated presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi surfaced as Iran hit ...
Iran hit back on Monday at Western criticism of the mass trials of election protesters, saying it would strongly resist such " foreign intervention" in its domestic affairs.Iran has put around 110 people in the dock over the protests unleashed since the ...
A French lecturer and two Iranian employees of the British and French embassies went on trial on Saturday with protesters who challenged the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian news agencies said.Clotilde Reiss, who turned 24 in Tehran's notorious Evin prison ...
Foreign Secretary David Miliband said the trial in Tehran Saturday of an Iranian employee of the British embassy was the " latest Iranian provocation" since the disputed presidential election.Miliband said he was "deeply concerned by the unjustified charges" laid against Hossein Rassam ...
An Iranian employee of the British embassy in Tehran who was detained then bailed during post-election protests in June, was on Saturday put on trial for spying in a move slammed by Downing Street as an " "Based on the order of British ...
An Iranian employee of the British embassy was among more than a dozen defendants detained during protests over President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed June 12 re-election in court in Tehran on Saturday.Political analyst Hossein Rassam, who was arrested on June 27 ...
British Foreign Office says a staff member at its embassy in Iran is on trial in TehranBritain's Foreign Office says a staff member at its embassy in Iran has been put on trial in Tehran.The ministry says it saw Hossein ...