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Tehran: Iran confirmed Tuesday arrest of a French-Iranian academic without giving any details of her case. The detention of Fariba Adelkhah, 60, risks increasing tension between Paris and Tehran at a critical moment in efforts to save the 2015 nuclear deal. Adelkhah is a well-known expert on Iran and Shiite Islam at France’s prestigious Sciences Po university. “She is among suspects that have been recently arrested,” Iran’s judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said, without specifying the accusations against her. (AFP)
