Tehran, Iran, May 23
By Mehdi Sepahvand - Trend:
Israel is responsible for four Iranian diplomats kidnapped in 1982, said Foreign Ministry's Spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari at a press conference in Tehran on May 23, Trend's correspondent reported.
Ansari said that Iran still considers them alive.
Iran's Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan also said on May 23 that Tehran has evidence that four Iranian diplomats kidnapped in 1982 in Lebanon are in Israeli prison.
Three Iranian diplomats, as well as the reporter of Islamic Republic of Iran News Agency were abducted in Lebanon on July 4, 1982.
The missing diplomats are Ahmad Motevaselian, Seyed Mohsen Mousavi,Taghi Rastegar Moghadam and Kazem Akhavan.