It might have been a scene from a perverse Persian-language Keystone Cops remake. On Wednesday last week, Iran’s state-run Press TV aired footage that, it claimed, showed Britain’s deputy ambassador taking soil samples in a desert location close to where the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) conducts missile exercises.
The report said the IRGC had caught Giles Whitaker spying on military sites, along with the spouse of the Austrian embassy’s cultural attache and a Polish university professor. The British diplomat was “expelled from the city after apologizing,” Press TV added.
The event seemed certain to ignite a major international diplomatic flare-up,
The Doha talks have failed to break the stalemate in the nuclear negotiations, but are expected to continue in July. Meanwhile, the latest Iranian civilian infrastructure to be targeted by cyberattacks is steel plants. A French citizen has also been sentenced to eight years in prison on espionage ch
A citizen of Poland is being held in Tehran, the Polish government said Thursday, confirming the detention after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard accused several Europeans of spying on military sites as tensions remain high between Tehran and the West. Poland’s Foreign Ministry said that Iran had arrested a “highly reputed scientist” last September, adding that the…
Iranian media reports that the Revolutionary Guards arrested several foreign diplomats on Thursday for espionage caused confusion after two of the countries