Iran Arrests British-Iranian Academic, Amid Tanker Standoff With U.K.
Iranian academic was arrested at his home in Tehran over the weekend, roiling relations once again between Iran and Britain just as they on the release of an Iranian tanker seized in Gibraltar. The academic, Kameel Ahmady, an acclaimed social anthropologist of Kurdish origin, was detained on Sunday after Iranian security forces raided his house and seized documents, including his birth certificate, his wife, Shafaq Rahmani, said in a text message. “A security prosecutor in Evin has issued a one-month arrest warrant for Kameel. No ...
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