The linked cases of Iranian engineer Mohammad Abedini and Italian reporter Cecilia Sala are the latest flashpoint between ...

And in 2024 came Reading Lolita in Tehran, directed by Eran Riklis, who is Israeli, and adapted from a book by an Iranian ...

Tehran issued the warning to the Italian ambassador ... told Paola Amadei that Rome's continued detention of Abedini was an "illegal act that is done based on the US demand and in line with ...

According to local reports, prison officials stepped in to rescue the Swiss national at the Semnan prison, some 180 kilometres (110 miles) east of Tehran. But their efforts were in vain.View on eurone ...

Italy’s justice minister on Sunday asked an appeals court to revoke the arrest of an Iranian citizen wanted by the US over a 2024 drone attack in Jordan that killed three Americans. Mohammad ...

An Italian journalist detained in Iran whose fate became intertwined with that of an Iranian engineer wanted by the United ...

Sala has been detained in Iran since 19 December, three days after she arrived in the country on a journalist visa.

Rome's ambassador to Tehran, Paola Amadei, has visited Sala but a care package she gave officials for the Italian reporter has not been passed on to her, Italian media said.

Iran's foreign ministry on Friday summoned the Italian ambassador to Tehran, protesting as an "illegal act" the arrest of an Iranian national by Italy, a day after a similar summoning in Rome.

Sala was detained on December 19 by police in Tehran and is being held in the ... she was "following the complex affair" closely, and Rome was pursuing "all possible avenues of dialogue" to ...

An Italian journalist detained in Iran whose fate became intertwined with that of an Iranian engineer wanted by the United ...