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On Sunday, the Associated Press quoted American sources as believing that a citizen journalist of Iranian origin is being held in Tehran, amid escalating tensions in the wake of the Israeli attack on… Iran.
The agency explained that journalist Reza Valizadeh has been detained in Iran for months, and he previously worked for a broadcaster funded by the US government, which increases the risks with Tehran threatening to respond to the recent Israeli attack.
Zadeh’s arrest, which the US State Department acknowledged – to the Associated Press – came at a time when Iran today commemorated the 100th anniversary of…45 to storm the American embassy in Tehran And the hostage crisis, after the revolution’s leader threatened Ali Khamenei Yesterday, Israel and the United States responded “decisively.”
Last February, Zadeh indicated – via the “X” platform – that his family members were being detained to force him to return to Iran, according to the Associated Press.
Last August, he also wrote two letters in which he explained that he was returning to Iran despite the fact that Iranian clerics consider “Radio Farda” a hostile platform – according to the American agency – saying, “I arrived in Tehran on March 6, 2024.”
He added, “Before that, incomplete negotiations were held with the intelligence arm of…For the Revolutionary Guard “I eventually returned to my country after 13 years without receiving any security guarantees, not even verbal ones.”
Zada added the name of a person who claimed to belong to Iranian intelligence, while the Associated Press said it was unable to verify whether he was actually an intelligence operative.
The Associated Press has reported that “rumors” have been circulating for weeks about Valizadeh’s arrest, while the Human Rights Activists News Agency, which monitors cases in Iran, reported that he was arrested upon his arrival in the country earlier this year, but was later released.
The agency stated that Zadeh was arrested again and sent to Evin Prison, where he now faces a case before the Iranian Revolutionary Court, which routinely holds closed sessions. She added that he faced arrest in 2007 as well.
While the US State Department said that it was “aware of reports that this citizen has been arrested in Iran,” Tehran did not acknowledge his detention, and its UN mission did not immediately respond to a request for comment, according to the Associated Press.
Today, Iranian demonstrators gathered outside the former US embassy in… DC To commemorate the 1979 hostage crisis that affected relations between Washington and Tehran for decades.
