TEHRAN, April 26: A British national has been arrested in Iran’s Kurdistan region suspected of spying, the Iranian newspaper Jumhouri-Islami reported today.
The paper, citing an unidentified intelligence service official, said the arrest was made "recently". It said the Briton, identified as Robert Gavin, was arrested while he was filming Army installations in a military zone and had confessed to working for the British secret service M16.
Gavin held a tourist visa and said he was a journalist for the BBC, said the newspaper, which is close to Iran’s fundamentalist circles.
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