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submitted 5 hours ago by DamnianWayne@lemmy.world to c/world@quokk.au
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[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 14 points 5 hours ago

Their charge is espionage, which is apparently somewhat dubious.

I'm not sure why anyone (especially a western woman) would consider Iran as a tourism destination.

[-] workerONE@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

People travel there and enjoy it. Iranian people seem very hospitable

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 15 points 5 hours ago

Oh I don't doubt the people are cool.

I just can't understand tourism to extreme authoritarian states. I can't personally justify the risk, which is entirely my thing and I shouldn't project.

[-] robocall@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Hopefully the British government can do some diplomacy and get them out. I wonder if they have inmate commissary accounts in Iran.

[-] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 1 points 35 minutes ago

If they're gonna do it, I hope they get a better deal than when Biden traded a notorious international arms dealer for... a WNBA player ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ

[-] DV8@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

These kinds of sham trials and convictions purely happen because the government of those people have arrested and convicted Iranian spies and/or assassins. They'll only ever be released in exchange for those. Like what Iran did for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asadollah_Asadi

this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2026
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