Iran Jails Its National For Spying For The UK

Tehran: Iran has sentenced its national to 10 years in prison for spying for the UK, the state media reported on Monday. Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said on state television that the unnamed individual was “in charge of the Iran desk of the British Council and confessed to co-operating with British intelligence”.

The official did not identify the person who was sentenced. But a London-based British Council employee and art student, Aras Amiri, was held in Iran in March 2018, the BBC reported. Amiri’s cousin said in May 2018 that she had been accused of “acting against national security” - a charge that has been laid by Iranian authorities against a range of activists, journalists and a number of dual citizens and foreign nationals detained in recent years. (IANS)

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