Iran suggests US intelligence operative may have taken advantage of detained reporter
Iran's foreign minister on Wednesday suggested that an intelligence operative, possibly linked to the US government, may have taken advantage of Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian, who has been charged in Iran with espionage and other crimes.
"The fact is there are people who take advantage of the needs of some people who try to get a visa to come to the United States or for their wives to come to the United States and make demands that are illegal and dangerous and damaging to the professionalism of a journalist," said Iran's Mohammad Javad Zarif. Zarif participated in a discussion hosted by New York University's Center on International Cooperation and the think tank New America and moderated by Washington Post columnist David Ignatius.
