SARAJEVO (AFP) – Bosnia has expelled two Iranian diplomats suspected of spying, including contacting a radical Muslim leader, a security ministry source said on Thursday.
The security ministry said that Iranian diplomats Hamzeh Doolab Ahmad and Jadidi Sohrab were declared “persona non grata” and “have left” Bosnian territory.
“As members of diplomatic personnel … they have used their diplomatic status for activities incompatible with their diplomatic functions and the Vienna convention on diplomatic relations,” the ministry said in a statement.
It did not elaborate or say when the two left Bosnia.
But a source at the ministry who asked not to be named said the two diplomats were suspected of “spying and (carrying out) other suspicious activities against the (Bosnian) constitution.”
The two served as the “embassy’s second and third secretary,” the source said.
