Iran Confirms Arrest of French Dual Citizen as Macron Eyes Talks
- President says he discussed Adelkhah’s detention with Rouhani
- Tension in Gulf has surged since U.S. ramped up oil sanctions
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Iran confirmed the detention of a French-Iranian dual national academic whose arrest could throw another obstacle in the path of European attempts to lower tensions in the Persian Gulf and salvage the 2015 nuclear agreement.
Fariba Adelkhah was “among suspects recently arrested,” judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esameili said, according to Mizan Online, a website affiliated with Iran’s legal authorities. “Given the nature of the file, there hasn’t been an opportunity to make public statements on the matter,” he said, without giving a reason for Adelkhah’s detention.