TV videos target two who are charged with espionage
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Zaghari-Ratcliffe, already Late Sunday, Iranian state serving a five-year prison TV aired a feature focused DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRsentence for allegedly plan- on Wang, a Chinese-born ATES — Iranian state tele- ning the “soft toppling” of American graduate student vision aired videos Sunday Iran’s government while at Princeton who is accused targeting a Briton and an traveling there with her of passing confidential inforAmerican serving time on toddler daughter, faces new mation about Iran to the espionage charges, likely charges that could add 16 U.S. State Department. trying to pressure the U.S. years to her prison term. He was arrested while and Britain as London conOn Thu rsday, Iranian conducting research on siders making a $530 mil- state television aired a sevthe Qajar dynasty that once lion payment to Tehran. en-minute special report ruled Iran for his doctor
The case of Iranian-Brit- on Zaghari-Ratcliffe. It ate in late 19th and early ish national Nazanin included close-ups of an 20th century Eurasian hisZaghari-Ratcliffe has gained April 2010 pay stub from tory, according to Princemomentum in recent weeks her previous employer, the ton officials, who confirmed as British Foreign Minister BBC World Service Trust. to the AP that he was in Boris Johnson faces tremenZaghari-Ratcliffe left the Iran to learn Farsi and condous criticism at home over BBC in 2011 and then joined duct research for his dishis handling of it. the Thomson Reuters Foun- sertation.
Meanwhile, state tele- dation, the charitable arm Authorities have alleged vision aired footage of an of the news agency. Both he scanned some 4,500 emotional Chinese-Amer- her husband, Richard Ratpages of digital documents, ican national Xiyue Wang cliffe, and Thomson Reuters paid thousands of dollars to as President Donald Trump repeatedly have stressed access archives he needed con t inues his hard line she was not training jour- and sought access to conagainst Tehran and its nalists or involved in any fidential areas of Tehran nuclear deal with world work regarding Iran while libraries.
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