Iranian 'who spied for the UK' jailed for 10 years
An Iranian national who worked for the British council is said to have confessed to be spying for the UK.
Tuesday 14 May 2019 09:47, UK
An Iranian national has been jailed for 10 years on charges of spying for the UK.
Officials in Tehran said the suspect, who has not been identified, worked for the British Council.
Gholamhossein Esmaili, a judiciary spokesman, said they were sentenced after "clearly confessing to assignments with British intelligence".
The British Council is Britain's cultural agency overseas.
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman who is being held in Tehran, is serving a five-year prison sentence for allegedly planning the "soft toppling" of Iran's government while travelling with her young daughter.
She was arrested in April 2016, and her sentence has been widely criticised.
Iran does not recognise dual nationality.