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UK says diplomat ‘arrest’ reports false, has left Iran

An image from footage released by Iranian state television shows a man claimed to be Giles Whitaker, deputy head of mission at the British embassy in Tehran [IRIB News Agency/AFP]

The United Kingdom has said “reports of the arrest” of a British diplomat in Iran were “completely false”, adding that the official had left the country in December.

The denials followed a report on Wednesday by the state-run Fars news agency that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had “identified and arrested diplomats from foreign embassies who were spying in Iran”.

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