IRAN: Another Europe-based Tehran diplomat defects, seeks asylum
Farzad Farhangian, a 47-year-old press attache at the Iranian Embassy in Brussels, arrived in Norway on Monday night and is planning to hand an application for asylum to Norwegian authorities Tuesday, his lawyer told Babylon & Beyond from Oslo. Farhangian's move marks the third time in less than a year that an Iranian diplomat has defected and applied for asylum in a Scandinavian country. Saying he was angered by the crackdown on dissidents during the Iranian presidential elections last year, Farhangian slammed Tehran's hard-line government ...
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