{"id":6344,"date":"2016-11-23T18:51:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T23:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=6344"},"modified":"2016-11-23T18:51:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T23:51:50","slug":"iran-arrests-12-officials-on-spying-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/6344\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran arrests 12 officials on spying charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6345 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/20161117224644398931341_Among-the-12-officials-currently-detained-had-some--300x172.jpg\" alt=\"20161117224644398931341_among-the-12-officials-currently-detained-had-some\" width=\"462\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/20161117224644398931341_Among-the-12-officials-currently-detained-had-some--300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/20161117224644398931341_Among-the-12-officials-currently-detained-had-some-.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/>Al Arabiya.net, 18 November 2016<\/strong> &#8211; Iranian MP Hussein Ali Haji Degana has revealed that at least 12 top officials holding dual citizenship have been arrested in Iran on spying charges.<br \/>\nThe MP added that among the 12 detained were officials who played key roles in the Iran nuclear deal signed last year.<br \/>\nThe MP demanded that the judiciary apparatus delivers its rulings with transparency, and that the officials\u2019 identity also be made public.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Some of the officials who were arrested simply for holding dual citizenships.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mojahedin.org\/images\/2016\/201611172246443989313451.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"bottom\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Abdol-Rasool Dorri Esfahani. (Archives)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Many high-ranking Iranian officials like Minister of Intelligence Mahmoud Alavi have denied in the past the presence of dual-citizens among Iran\u2019s decision makers. But it has been reported that Abdol-Rasool Dorri Esfahani, one of the nuclear deal negotiators, was arrested based on the claims of owning dual citizenship with his family currently residing in Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Al Arabiya.net, 18 November 2016 &#8211; Iranian MP Hussein Ali Haji Degana has revealed that at least 12 top officials holding dual citizenship have been <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/6344\/\" title=\"Iran arrests 12 officials on spying charges\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran-world","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6346,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344\/revisions\/6346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}