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Iran confirms intelligence agents
holding ex-nuclear man
AFP
Saturday May 05, 2007
Iranian intelligence officials are holding a former nuclear negotiator
from the reformist presidency of Mohammad Khatami, the Tehran prosecutor
confirmed on Saturday.
"The intelligence ministry is in charge of investigating accusations
against Hossein Moussavian," the official IRNA news agency
quoted Saeed Mortazavi as saying.
He confirmed that Moussavian was in custody but refused to specify
the allegations against him "until the investigations are complete."
Moussavian, part of a moderate negotiating team that served until
2005, was arrested at his home in Tehran on Monday.
The semi-official Fars news agency said on Wednesday that Moussavian
"was arrested and detained for a series of links with foreigners
and exchanging information with them."
Quoting unnamed sources it said "Moussavian had probably exchanged
information with foreigners over nuclear issues and he could face
espionage charges."
He played a central role in talks that saw Iran strike a deal with
Europe under which it suspended its controversial uranium enrichment
activities, a freeze which was reversed when President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
came to power.
The nuclear negotiating team under Khatami was considered close
to the centrist cleric and former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani,
who was thrashed by Ahmadinejad in 2005 presidential elections.
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