The World - News from Aug. 22, 1988
A British diplomat was allowed to visit one of two Britons being held in a Tehran prison on spying charges, the Foreign Office said in London. David Reddaway, who went to Iran on Aug. 12 after a thaw in relations between the two countries, visited Nicholas Nicola in Tehran’s Evin Prison and found him “in good health and reasonably cheerful,” a Foreign Office spokesman said. The two met for 30 minutes, and the diplomat gave Nicola some “creature comforts,” including cheese and pickles from London, the spokesman said. Nicola was detained in September, 1986, for allegedly firing a gun near the Iran-Pakistan border. The spokesman said Reddaway has been given an indication that he will also be able to see Roger Cooper, the other Briton held without trial.
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