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Wed, 01/20/2010 - 01:10
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Israel responsible for lives of 4 kidnapped Iranian diplomats
TEHRAN, Jan. 19 (MNA) -- Iran holds the Zionist regime of Israel solely responsible for the lives of four Iranian diplomats who were kidnapped in Lebanon in 1982, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Tuesday.
Four Iranian nationals, chargé d’affaires 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), were captured by a Phalangist militia while traveling to southern Lebanon in 1982, then handed over to the Zionist regime and transferred to a prison in occupied Palestine.
Tehran has been pursuing the issue through international legal bodies particularly the United Nations but no result has been achieved so far, Mottaki told reporters.
The fate of the Iranian nationals is not clear yet as the international bodies are negligent toward the issue, the minister regretted.
Four Iranian nationals, chargé d’affaires 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), were captured by a Phalangist militia while traveling to southern Lebanon in 1982, then handed over to the Zionist regime and transferred to a prison in occupied Palestine.
Tehran has been pursuing the issue through international legal bodies particularly the United Nations but no result has been achieved so far, Mottaki told reporters.
The fate of the Iranian nationals is not clear yet as the international bodies are negligent toward the issue, the minister regretted.
