British-Australian women latest detainees in Iran's 'hostage diplomacy'

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British-Australian women latest detainees in Iran's 'hostage diplomacy'

Tehran has pursued a campaign of detaining Iranian and dual nationals academics in recent years, raising fears the Islamic republic is using them as diplomatic leverage. While there are no exact figures on the number of detainees with British links being held in Iran, these are at least some of those who are understood to be incarcerated as part of Iran's "hostage diplomacy". The two British-Australian women were reportedly jailed in the notorious Evin Jail, in the capital Tehran. One of the women, a blogger who was travelling through Asia ...

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