British ‘spy’ is jailed for six years in Iran

IRAN claimed it had sentenced an British-Iranian citizen to six years in jail last night for spying for the UK.

The judiciary’s Mizan news agency said Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari- Dolatabadi had referred to the prison sentence ‘for an agent of England’s intelligence service’.

But no other details were given such as the person’s name, when they were arrested or where.

Last night a diplomatic source told the Daily Mail: ‘As usual the Iranians have been tight-lipped on this.’ At least two British-Iranian citizens are already known to be held in Iran. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was sentenced to five years for plotting the overthrow of Iran’s government.

The British Government says she was in Iran visiting relatives in April 2016. And 78-year-old Kamal Foroughi was arrested in 2011 and convicted of espionage and possessing alcohol.