Forming a Committee to Pursue the Case of Four Kidnapped Iranian Diplomats

Navideshahed: Iran's Foreign Minister calls on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to investigate the abduction of four Iranian diplomats by Israel and a Lebanese figure by Libya.

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جمعه - ۱۳ مهر ۲۰۱۱ / 2011 13 July

According to a Navideshahed report and as stated by Sajed website, Addressing a group of foreign ambassadors to Tehran, Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has called on Lebanon to establish a legal team to pursue the case of the four Iranian diplomats.

The four Iranian nationals, Ahmad Motevasselian, Seyyed Mohsen Mousavi, Taqi Rastegar-Moqaddam, and Kazem Akhavan were abducted at an inspection point in Lebanon by a group of gunmen on July 4, 1982 while they were traveling to the Iranian Embassy in Damascus, Syria.

They were last heard of on June 2008, when the Lebanese Hezbollah Resistance Movement, received a report indicating that the diplomats were alive and in Israeli captivity.

The four Iranian diplomats were kidnapped on July 4, 1982 in northern Lebanon and then transferred to Israel.
In a ceremony to mark the 29th anniversary of their abduction, Iran's foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi said “his country has evidence that the four Iranian diplomats are still alive and in Israeli jails”?.

Salehi outlined: This issue enhances the special necessity of United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

The 29th anniversary of Four Iranian diplomats, chargé d’affairs Mohsen Mousavi, military attaché of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ahmad Motevasellian, Taqi Rastegar Moqaddam, a diplomat from the embassy, and Kazem Akhavan, a reporter and photographer from the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) was held in the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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According to a Navideshahed report and as stated by Sajed website, Addressing a group of foreign ambassadors to Tehran, Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has called on Lebanon to establish a legal team to pursue the case of the four Iranian diplomats. The four Iranian nationals, Ahmad Motevasselian, Seyyed Mohsen Mousavi, Taqi Rastegar-Moqaddam, and Kazem Akhavan were abducted at an inspection point in Lebanon by a group of gunmen on July 4, 1982 while they were traveling to the Iranian Embassy in Damascus, Syria. They were last heard of on June 2008, when the Lebanese Hezbollah Resistance Movement, received a report indicating that the diplomats were alive and in Israeli captivity. The four Iranian diplomats were kidnapped on July 4, 1982 in northern Lebanon and then transferred to Israel. In a ceremony to mark the 29th anniversary of their abduction, Iran's foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi said “his country has evidence that the four Iranian diplomats are still alive and in Israeli jails”?. Salehi outlined: This issue enhances the special necessity of United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The 29th anniversary of Four Iranian diplomats, chargé d’affairs Mohsen Mousavi, military attaché of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ahmad Motevasellian, Taqi Rastegar Moqaddam, a diplomat from the embassy, and Kazem Akhavan, a reporter and photographer from the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) was held in the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The End