Explanation Demanded for Iran TV Broadcast
Britain said Friday it is demanding urgently that Tehran explain why a jailed British businessman was shown in an Iranian television broadcast falsely confessing to setting up a spy network in the Islamic country.
A Foreign Office spokesman said Thursday’s television appearance by Roger Cooper, 51, was “incomprehensible and totally unacceptable.” British officials have called it a “trial by television.”
Cooper, an oil construction company employee, was arrested in December, 1985 by Iranian authorities who claimed he was a spy.
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