Times Online (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Eight Iranian employees of the British Embassy were arrested but Mr Rassam was the only one who eventually faced a court in one of the dozens of show trials of people accused of everything from spying to treason to fomenting violence. His work as a political analyst, writing on the Iranian political situation, appears to have made him a prime target for retribution by the regime.
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... Alizadeh, told the ILNA news agency. Specifically, Mr. Leylaz was accused of having dealings with Hossein Rassam, an Iranian employed as a political analyst at the British Embassy, who was sentenced in October to four years in prison for fomenting violence. Read the whole thing > Join the conversation about this story » See Also: Iran Frees The Five British Yachtsmen Got...
KURDISH BLOG (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
A senior Iranian employee of the British Embassy in Tehran has been given a four-year prison sentence after being found guilty of fomenting violence at the behest of the British Government, The Times has learnt. Hossein Rassam, 44, the embassy’s political counsellor, was sentenced in a closed courtroom this week, although the outcome is yet to be publicly announced. The Foreign...
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Britain has condemned the jail sentence handed down to one of its embassy staff in Tehran as "wholly unjustified" and urged Iran to repeal it. Hossein Rassam , an...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Stockholm - Sweden, the current holder of the European Union presidency, Thursday criticized as unjustified and harsh a four- year prison sentence given to a British embassy employee in Iran. Hossein Rassam was sentenced over allegedly fomenting th...
The Observer (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... bitterly disputed presidential election that returned the 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...
The Poor Mouth (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
"I confess that my acts were sanctioned by British Foreign Minister, Grigory Zinoviev" According to the Times Hossein Rassam, a senior employee of the British Embassy in Tehran, has been given a four-year prison sentence after being found guilty of fomenting violence at the behest of the British Government. Rassam, the embassy’s political counsellor, was sentenced...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Hossein Rassam, a political analyst at the embassy in Tehran, was sentenced to four years in prison on charges of fomenting violence during unrest that broke out over the country’s disputed elections in June.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Europe has joined in condemnation of the jail sentence handed down to Hossein Rassam a British embassy worker accused of fomenting violence in protests after the disputed election in Iran.
The Osterley Times (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... bitterly disputed presidential election that returned the 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 notion that any one person could have been behind the protests, which broke out all over Iran, is simply nonsensical. How could any...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... four years after being found guilty of fomenting violence at the behest of the British government. Hossein Rassam, 44, the embassy's political counsellor, was sentenced in a closed courtroom this week, although the outcome is yet to be publicly announced. Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office learnt of his sentence on Tuesday and summoned the Iranian ambassador in protest. The...
IOL (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
By Adrian CroftLondon - Britain said on Thursday it was deeply concerned by reports that an Iranian employee at its embassy in Tehran had been sentenced to four years in jail after being put on trial for espionage.Calling Hossein Rassam's sentencing "an attack against the entire diplomatic community in Iran", Foreign Secretary David Miliband said the Foreign Office had called in Iran's...
France 24 (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... in Tehran had been sentenced to four years in jail after being put on trial for espionage.Calling Hossein Rassam's reported sentencing "an attack against the entire diplomatic community in Iran", Foreign Secretary David Miliband said the Foreign Office had called in Iran's ambassador to London to protest.The Foreign Office could not say which reports Miliband was referring to, and...
Evening Standard - News (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Miliband's fury at sentence on Iranian working at UK embassyEd Harris29.10.09 Tensions between Britain and rose sharply today after a senior employee at the in was given a four-year sentence for allegedly fomenting violence.Hossein Rassam, an Iranian who worked as the embassy's chief political analyst, was arrested in June as the authorities in Tehran clamped down on massive street protests...
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 June, The Times...
