France 24 (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband branded Thursday a reported jail sentence handed to an embassy worker in Iran as "wholly unjustified" and urged authorities to overturn it. British embassy worker Hossein Rassam was sentenced to four years in prison this week after being found guilty of fomenting violence during Iran's disputed presidential elections in...
France24 (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband branded Thursday the reported jailing of an embassy worker in Iran as "wholly unjustified" and urged an immediate appeal of the sentence. British embassy worker Hossein Rassam was sentenced to four years in jail this week after being found guilty of fomenting violence during Iran's disputed presidential elections in June,...
Evening Standard - News (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Latest: Tensions between Britain and Iran rose sharply after a senior employee at the British embassy in Tehran was given a four-year sentence for allegedly fomenting violence
The Observer (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... hardliners to power. Britain denies that Hossein Rassam, its chief political analyst at the Tehran embassy, was involved in the demonstrations that angered and embarrassed the Iranian regime. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London was unable to say if reports Rassam had been convicted were true. Nonetheless foreign secretary David Miliband condemned any conviction as "harassment"....
