Iran often hands down 10-year sentences for spying
Two British-Australian women are among three people who have been arrested in Iran.
A British-Australian academic who studied at Cambridge University and was lecturing at an Australian university was arrested separately and sentenced to 10 years in prison. The names of those involved have not been released but the Australian government has confirmed it is providing consular assistance.
The blogger and her boyfriend had been documenting their travels on YouTube and Instagram, with their followers having become concerned in the past several weeks by the absence of any new posts. The tanker was suspected of breaching EU sanctions by transporting 2.1 million barrels of Iranian oil to war-ravaged Syria.
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