Italian journalist Cecilia Sala was launched on 8 January, after spending 19 days in an Iranian jail. She was arrested in Tehran on 19 December whereas reporting for the each day Il Foglio and the Chora Media podcast. Sala, 29, was in Iran on a journalist’s visa. She was accused of “violating the legal guidelines of the Islamic Republic” and was being held in Evin jail, close to the Iranian capital.
In line with a number of sources, the negotiations between the Italian and Iranian authorities for Sala’s launch may have concerned an trade with Mohammad Abedini Najafabadi, a 38-year-old Iranian citizen arrested in Milan on 16 December at Washington’s request. That is believed to be the explanation why Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni visited america on 4 January. US authorities accuse Abedini of getting exported digital tools to Iran in violation of sanctions towards the regime, and of supporting a terrorist group accountable for the dying of three American troopers in Jordan.
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