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IRAN - Iran Denies Citizen Detained In Turkey Is A Consulate Employee

February 15, 2021:

Iran Denies Citizen Detained In Turkey Is A Consulate Employee.
"No consulate employee has been arrested," foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh told reporters on February 15. "What has happened is the arrest of an Iranian national upon entry," he added, noting that Iran was in contact with Turkey regarding the matter. He gave no further details.
Mohammad Reza Naserzadeh, 43, was arrested earlier this week, Turkey’s pro-government Sabah newspaper reported. He is accused of forging travel documents for Ali Esfanjani – the alleged mastermind of the killing of dissident Masoud Molavi Vardanjani – to smuggle him to Iran. The assassination was carried out by a Turkish national named Abdulvahap Kocak, but was allegedly orchestrated by Esfanjani who fled to Iran following the incident.
With the case being revived, the consulate staff member Muhammad Reza Naserzadeh is accused of having forged documents for Esfanjani to enable his return to Iran, and was arrested earlier this week after a court order was issued.
Reuters confirmed that Naserzadeh had been held over Vardanjani’s killing, but the news agency said it could not confirm Sabah’s allegation that the suspect worked at the civic registry department of the Iranian Consulate in Istanbul. Vardanjani, a former Iranian intelligence operative who exposed corruption involving Iranian officials, was shot and killed in Istanbul on November 14, 2019 — a year after leaving Iran. He had been put under investigation by Iranian authorities. A Turkish police report published in March 2020 said Vardanjani had worked in cybersecurity at Iran’s Defense Ministry before becoming a vocal critic of the Iranian regime. Two senior Turkish officials told Reuters last year that Vardanjani’s killing was instigated by intelligence officials at the Iranian Consulate in Istanbul. One of the officials identified the two suspects by their initials, and one set of initials matched Naserzadeh’s. A senior U.S. administration official said in April 2020 that Washington had grounds to believe that Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security was directly involved in Vardanjani’s killing. Iran has denied that any consulate staff had been involved in Vardanjani’s shooting death. Last week, a Belgian court sentenced an Iranian diplomat to 20 years in prison on charges of planning an attack on an exiled opposition group. It was the first trial of an Iranian official on terrorism charges in Europe since Iran’s 1979 revolution.

https://english.shabtabnews.com/2021/02/16/iran-denies-citizen-detained-in-turkey-is-a-consulate-employee/

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2021/02/11/Turkey-arrests-Iranian-diplomat-over-killing-of-dissident-in-Istanbul-Daily-Sabah

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210212-turkey-arrests-iran-consulate-diplomat-over-dissident-assassination-case/

(Source: Radio Farda)

IRAN - 2 more men executed on February 17 at Rajai Shahr Prison
BANGLADESH: SIX SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING FOUR OF A FAMILY IN KURIGRAM
JORDAN: DEATH SENTENCE OVERTURNED FOR MAN WHO KILLED FIVE-YEAR-OLD NEPHEW
INDIA: PATNA SCHOOL PRINCIPAL GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR RAPING CLASS 5 STUDENT
IRAN - 1 woman and 6 men executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on February 17
IRAN - Ali Dadfari-Mazandarani executed on February 16 in Boroujerd Prison
BANGLADESH: COURT SENTENCES 5 TO DEATH FOR KILLING US BLOGGER AVIJIT ROY
NIGERIA: DISMISSED SARS OFFICER SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLING
SAUDI ARABIA: SAUDI NATIONAL HANDED DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER OF BANGLADESHI WOMAN
MYANMAR: JUNTA PARDONS OVER 23,000 PRISONERS AS PROTESTS CONTINUE
SOMALILAND: NORWEGIAN CITIZEN SENTENCED TO DEATH COULD BE SHOT WITHIN A FEW DAYS
USA - Federal Executions Were Likely COVID Superspreader Events
IRAN - Saeed Ali-Mohammadi executed at Nour Prison on February 14
IRAN - Jamaluddin Brahui and Mohammad Barahui executed at Birjand prison on February 13
SAUDI ARABIA: EGYPTIAN ALI ABU AL-QASIM’S DEATH SENTENCE REDUCED TO 25 YEARS IN PRISON
IRAN - Mansour Ghazagh executed on February 13 at Birjand Prison
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IRAN - Bahavar Tanazi executed at Meshgin Shahr Prison on February 13
IRAN - Another Iranian Diplomat Arrested for Terror
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USA - Alabama. Willie B. Smith won a reprieve from a scheduled lethal injection
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USA - Texas. Death Sentence for Melissa Lucio Reinstated
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