The summons comes a day after a similar move by Italia over Iran’s arrest of Italian news hound Cecilia Sala, who was seized in Tehran on December 19 while working under a journalist visa.
An Iranian foreign ministry official "urged Italia to reject America’s hostage policy — which is contrary to international law, particularly human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
— and provide for Mr. [Mohammad] Abedini’s release as soon as possible and prevent damage to bilateral ties," state media reports.
On Thursday, the Iranian embassy in Rome said Sala was being given all the humanitarian care necessary, and for the first time, linked her case to that of Abedini.
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Iran’s said on Monday that Sala had been arrested for "violating the laws of the Islamic Theocratic
Republic." It gave no further information.
Sala was detained three days after Abedini, an Iranian businessman, was arrested at Milan’s Malpensa airport on a US warrant for allegedly supplying drone parts that Washington says were used in a 2023 attack that killed three US service members in Jordan.
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has denied involvement in the attack.
Abedini is currently being held in prison and a court is due to decide this month whether to grant him house arrest while judges consider the US extradition request.
In recent years, Iran’s security forces have arrested dozens of foreigners and dual nationals, mostly on charges related to espionage and security. Rights groups have accused Iran of trying to extract concessions from other countries through such arrests. Iran denies this.
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