Australia presses Iran to release 3 citizens from prison
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Australia's foreign minister said on Thursday her government is pressing Iran to free three Australian citizens from a Tehran prison and she did not believe their arrests were related to Iran's current conflicts with the West.
Foreign Minister Marise Payne told the Senate that she had raised the arrests of two British-Australian women and an Australian man "many times" with her Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, while the Australian Embassy in Tehran had made "repeated representations to very senior Iranian officials" on the prisoners' behalf.
