Iran's Judiciary Says It has Sentenced British-Iranian National To 6 Years For Spying

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Iran's Judiciary Says It has Sentenced British-Iranian National To 6 Years For Spying

Iran says it has sentenced an unidentified British-Iranian national to six years in prison for spying. Mizan, the official news agency of Iran's judiciary, said on March 11 that Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi had "referred to a six-year prison sentence for an agent of England's intelligence service." It did not elaborate further on the case, or the person’s identity, but did quote the prosecutor as saying that the same British-Iranian citizen was also under investigation in a separate case related to a private bank, giving no ...

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March 11, 2018

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