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Tue, 05/31/2011 - 09:46
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‘Egypt apologizes for inadvertently arresting Iranian diplomat’
TEHRAN, May 31 (MNA) -- The Egyptian officials have apologized to Tehran for mistakenly arresting an Iranian diplomat on espionage charges, Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi has said.
On Sunday, the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya satellite television network reported, “Egyptian authorities have arrested an Iranian diplomat on charges of spying on the North African country for Tehran’s intelligence services.”
“Egypt had mistaken the Iranian diplomat for someone else and had arrested him. And they (the Egyptian authorities) apologized to Iran and released him after 2 hours,” Salehi said in a report published on the website of the Iranian government on Saturday.
Earlier, an informed diplomatic source at Iran’s Interest Section in Cairo had dismissed the news reports about the arrest of the diplomat, whose name is Qasem Hosseini.
The informed source, who spoke to the Egyptian Masrawy news website on Sunday, said, “The reports claiming that an Iranian diplomat has been arrested in Cairo, on what has been called espionage charges, are completely without substance.”
On Sunday, the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya satellite television network reported, “Egyptian authorities have arrested an Iranian diplomat on charges of spying on the North African country for Tehran’s intelligence services.”
“Egypt had mistaken the Iranian diplomat for someone else and had arrested him. And they (the Egyptian authorities) apologized to Iran and released him after 2 hours,” Salehi said in a report published on the website of the Iranian government on Saturday.
Earlier, an informed diplomatic source at Iran’s Interest Section in Cairo had dismissed the news reports about the arrest of the diplomat, whose name is Qasem Hosseini.
The informed source, who spoke to the Egyptian Masrawy news website on Sunday, said, “The reports claiming that an Iranian diplomat has been arrested in Cairo, on what has been called espionage charges, are completely without substance.”
