Mehdi Hashemi, son of former Iranian president Ali Akbar Rasfanjani, last month returned to Iran from Britain, where he was studying at the University of Oxford, and was promptly arrested. He is still in detention.
Mehdi Hashemi, son of former Iranian president Ali Akbar Rasfanjani, last month returned to Iran from Britain, where he was studying at the University of Oxford, and was promptly arrested. He is still in detention.
In reporting on Hashemi’s legal troubles in Britain and Canada, Iran’s Fars news agency, which is reportedly affiliated with its Revolutionary Guard Corps, cited my article in Maclean’s.