HRANA News Agency – Two British nationals, a man and a woman, have been arrested in Kerman on security-related charges. The Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office of Kerman Province, without disclosing their names, reported that the UK ambassador to Iran recently met with the detainees.
According to HRANA, citing IRNA, two British citizens have been detained in Kerman.
In an official statement, the Kerman Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office announced that Hugo Shorter, the UK ambassador to Iran, met with the two detainees at the Prosecutor’s Office in Kerman.
The report does not disclose the detainees’ identities, whereabouts, or further details regarding their case.
In recent years, Iranian authorities have arrested multiple foreign nationals on charges such as espionage or collaboration with hostile governments. Some of these detainees have been released following political negotiations. Human rights organizations and several Western governments have accused Iran of using such arrests as leverage in diplomatic disputes—an allegation Iranian authorities have consistently denied.
