She said she had read that Italy had arrested an Iranian engineer three days earlier at the request of the United States. The ...

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

Mohammad Abedini's release comes days after Iran freed Italian journalist Cecilia Sala from a Tehran jail following intense diplomatic efforts by Rome. Iran announced on Sunday that a national ...

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.

Mohammad Abedini was arrested by Italian authorities at Milan’s Malpensa airport on a US warrant on 16 December, accused of supplying the technology for a drone strike in Jordan which killed three US ...

An Italian journalist arrested and jailed in Iran since December has been freed and returned to Rome on Wednesday, even as a diplomatic spat between the two countries lingers over an Iranian held in ...

Italy and Iran summoned each other's ambassadors on Thursday, clashing over the detention of an Italian journalist in Tehran two weeks ago, with Rome demanding she be immediately released. Cecilia ...

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 ...

While Washington was hoping for another outcome with Abedini, the agreement between Rome and Tehran appears to have been a classic case of hostage diplomacy — albeit one heightened by the ...

Later on Thursday, Tajani said that Rome's Iran envoy was summoned in Tehran. Sala travelled to Iran on December 13 on a journalist's visa. She was arrested six days later for "violating the law ...

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 ...