Reuters staff member to appear in Tehran court over Ninjas report

TEHRAN, May 1(MNA) – The Reuters bureau chief in Iran, Parisa Hafezi, is to appear before a Tehran court in the coming days over an earlier report by the London-based news agency describing female Iranian martial arts students as “assassins,” Press TV reported on Monday. In a February 16 report, Reuters showed a number of Iranian girls training martial arts in a city near Tehran, claiming Iran was training more than 3,000 female ninjas to kill any possible foreign invaders.