'Used as pawns': Australian feared among growing number of foreign nationals held in Iran

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After being arrested and charged, Dr Hosseini Chavoshi's case was dismissed by authorities, according to Iranian state TV — but the dual citizen of Australia and Iran hasn't been heard from since.

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Three Australians detained in Iran have been the subject of intense public interest, with two being released over the weekend. But a fourth Australian is believed to be unable to leave the country.

Meimanat Hosseini Chavoshi, a population expert at the University of Melbourne, was on a study tour in Tehran during December 2018 when she wasAccording to Iranian state TV, her case was dismissed by authorities, but Dr Hosseini Chavoshi, a dual citizen of Australia and Iran, has not been heard from since.Academic's work not 'in any way political'

Dr Hosseini Chavoshi has dedicated her career to studying Iran's population, fertility and the Iranian Government's population policies, according to Professor Abbas Milani, a political historian from Stanford University who is familiar with her work."In fact, her work praises the earlier success of the population-control problem in Iran.

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Why is it OK for Aus. to jail Iranians here at the request of the USA but not OK for Iran to jail Australians, do you think we have some high moral ground here

Where was Assange again? Oh that's right, he's being detained by the (cough) 'good guys'.

Where was Assange again?

Australians and everyone else should stay away from that demented awful country. Same goes for the Arab autocracies.

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