{"id":219496,"date":"2025-02-18T15:05:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/british-couple-charged-with-espionage-in-iran-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T15:05:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:05:22","slug":"british-couple-charged-with-espionage-in-iran-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/british-couple-charged-with-espionage-in-iran-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"British couple charged with espionage in Iran | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/av_qhbt30VA\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"British couple charged with espionage in Iran | BBC News\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/av_qhbt30VA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Detained Britons Craig and Lindsay Foreman have been charged in Iran with espionage, the country&#8217;s judiciary news agency has said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr and Mrs Foreman were arrested in January but news of their detention, on unspecified security charges, emerged last week.<\/p>\n<p>Judiciary spokesman Asghar Jahangir said that the couple, both aged 52, had &quot;entered Iran under the guise of tourists&quot; and &quot;gathered information in multiple provinces of the country&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>The couple had been on a motorbike trip around the world and had planned to stay in Iran for five days.<\/p>\n<p>The UK Foreign Office&#8217;s official advice is against all travel to Iran, saying British and British-Iranian dual nationals are at &quot;significant risk of arrest, questioning or detention&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Having a British passport or connections to the UK &quot;can be reason enough for the Iranian authorities to detain you&quot;, it adds.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#Iran #UK #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detained Britons Craig and Lindsay Foreman have been charged in Iran with espionage, the country&#8217;s judiciary news agency has said. Mr and Mrs Foreman were arrested in January but news of their detention, on unspecified security charges, emerged last week. 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