The linked cases of Iranian engineer Mohammad Abedini and Italian reporter Cecilia Sala are the latest flashpoint between Tehran and Washington. View on euronews

According to local reports, prison officials stepped in to rescue the Swiss national at the Semnan prison, some 180 kilometres (110 miles) east of Tehran. But their efforts were in vain.View on eurone

Italy’s justice minister on Sunday asked an appeals court to revoke the arrest of an Iranian citizen wanted by the US over a 2024 drone attack in Jordan that killed three Americans. Mohammad

Though Rome and Tehran have both publicly denied any connection between the fates of Sala and Abedini, Nathalie Tocci, director of Rome’s Institute of International Affairs, said Abedini’s ...

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An Italian journalist detained in Iran whose fate became intertwined with that of an Iranian engineer wanted by the United States said she assumed she would have been held much longer and said her boyfriend's contact with Elon Musk might have been "fundamental" to her release.

Italian journalist Cecilia Sala has told how Elon Musk played a pivotal role in her release from an Iranian detention center.

Over 2.4 million Italian television viewers, with a peak audience share of 12.1%, tuned in to watch Pope Francis' exclusive interview to TV talk-show host Fabio Fazio on his show Che Tempo Che Fa (CTCF) on the Nove channel on Sunday and the first television interview to journalist Cecilia Sala since her release in Iran earlier this month.

ROME (AP) — An Italian journalist detained in Iran whose fate became intertwined with that of an Iranian engineer wanted by the United States said she assumed she would have been held much longer, and said her boyfriend's contact with Elon Musk might have been “fundamental” to her release.