{"id":26485,"date":"2025-02-18T19:37:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/two-britons-arrested-in-iran-on-charge-of-espionage\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T19:37:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:07:56","slug":"two-britons-arrested-in-iran-on-charge-of-espionage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/two-britons-arrested-in-iran-on-charge-of-espionage\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Britons arrested in Iran on charge of espionage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/5386068.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>Asghar Jahangir said the two Britons had visited Iran under the guise of tourism and were gathering intelligence in several provinces pretending to be carrying out research.<\/p>\n<p>They were working with the institutions affiliated with the intelligence services of the adversary and Western countries under the pretense of research activities, the Judiciary\u2019s spokesman added.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the two Brits were under surveillance\u00a0by the Iranian security organizations in the city of Kerman and were\u00a0arrested by the intelligence department of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps in Kerman Province.<\/p>\n<p>Jahangir said the UK ambassador to Tehran has had a meeting with the two, who were captured in the Persian month of Dey (December 21, 2024 \u2013 January 19, 2025).<\/p>\n<p>MNA\/ISN<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/228547\/Two-Britons-arrested-in-Iran-on-charge-of-espionage\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asghar Jahangir said the two Britons had visited Iran under the guise of tourism and were gathering intelligence in several provinces pretending to be carrying out research. They were working with the institutions affiliated with the intelligence services of the adversary and Western countries under the pretense of research activities, the Judiciary\u2019s spokesman added. He &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}