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Iran arrests Iranian-British woman over hostile acts

Xinhua, June 15, 2016 Adjust font size:

Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Wednesday that it had arrested an Iranian-British woman over a number of hostile acts, Tasnim news agency reported.

The IRGC said in a statement that its intelligence department arrested Nazanin Zaghari on April 3 at Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport and took her to the city of Kerman in the south of country.

Zaghari was "a main ringleader of institutes affiliated with foreign intelligence agencies and carried out various operations to serve the hostile purposes of the enemies of the Islamic establishment," the statement was cited as saying.

Employed by foreign media and intelligence services, she had been involved in planning and performing media and cyber projects with the purpose of "soft overthrow" of the Islamic republic's establishment, it added.

During her detention, Zaghari has had regular telephone contacts and even face-to-face meetings with her family, it said, adding that her case is still under investigation. Endit