NCRI – The Iranian regime has arrested its own senior diplomat in Tehran in March, possibly as part of a crackdown ahead of the June presidential election, sources told Reuters on Tuesday.
Bagher Asadi, who has previously been a senior diplomat at Iran’s U.N. mission in New York and was most recently a director at the secretariat of the so-called D8 group of developing nations in Istanbul, was arrested in mid-March in the Iranian capital according to the sources, who requested anonymity.
“We don’t know why Ambassador Asadi was arrested,” a source said, adding that it could be part of a pre-election crackdown.
It was not clear where Asadi was being held, the sources told Reuters.
Reuters was unable to independently verify any aspect of the matter – who arrested the 61-year-old diplomat, on what grounds or even if he had been detained.