Another U.S. citizen is detained
Iran has detained an Iranian American consultant working for George Soros’ Open Society Institute, the group said.
The detention of Kian Tajbakhsh comes amid recent accusations by Iranian authorities that the U.S. is using critics and dissidents to try to overthrow the hard-line government.
The group is a private foundation that encourages democracy-building in countries around the world.
This month, Iranian authorities arrested Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East Program at the Washington-based Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and charged her with setting up a network to overthrow the Islamic regime.
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