Against the background of demonstrations and contestation of the regime, Tehran accuses “foreign forces” of stirring the crisis.
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Party on foot from Madrid, Santiago Sanchez told the long journey that was to lead him to Doha, Qatar, to attend the Football World Cup, posting short videos on his Instagram account, Fragments of meetings and of life scenes in the countries he was going through. The last date of the 1 er October. On October 24, his parents announced the disappearance of Spanish, 41, experienced hiker, shortly after entering Iran from Iraqi territory.
In her latest publication, on her Instagram page, the Italian Alessia Piperno, 30, said he was impressed by the courage of the Iranian people: “This land welcomed me with open arms, and that I went straight to the heart. “After being unreachable for four days, this solo traveler informed her parents on October 2 of her placement in a brief telephone call:” They stopped me, and I Am in Tehran’s prison. “” There are people here who have been detained for months for no reason, “she added, worried about the same fate.
Santiago Sanchez and Alessia Piperno were in the country while Iran is shaken by a wave of demonstrations triggered on September 16 by the death of a young woman, Mahsa Amini, after her arrest by the police. However, Tehran has repeatedly accused “external forces” of stirring protests. As the threats of sanctions multiply, would the Iranian regime increase its pressure on Western countries by removing their nationals or people linked to Western Chancellery?
five French nationals retained in Iran
Relatives of two Iranian citizens, employees of the French Embassy in Tehran, confirmed to the world their arrest at the end of September. Iranian authorities have not communicated about them. On October 7, France invited its nationals of passing to Iran to leave the country as soon as possible due to the risks of arbitrary arrest and detention. Five French nationals are currently retained in Iran, said French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna. So far, Paris officially recognized that four of its nationals were imprisoned: the Franco-Iranian researcher Fariba Adelkhah, arrested in June 2019 then sentenced to five years in prison for damage to national security; Benjamin Brière, arrested in May 2020 and sentenced to eight years and eight months’ imprisonment for espionage, and two trade unionists, Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris, arrested in May.
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