Nuclear deal approaches, Iran’s terror continues

In the wake of talk that a new Iranian nuclear deal can be signed within a few weeks and Iran’s announcement that it created a new hypersonic missile that can evade all air defenses, it was recently reported that Azerbaijani student Farid Safarli was arrested in Tehran on false espionage charges.

Safarli, age 27, is a student at the University of Jena and traveled to Tehran to meet his girlfriend. Although he was expected to return to Germany last March, it was recently reported that he was arrested on fabricated charges of espionage and is presently being held hostage in Tehran.

What Iran hopes to gain by holding Safarli hostage remains to be seen. However, this is the same country that recently attempted to execute Azerbaijani Iranian dissident Ahmad Obali and his son Deniz, attempted to assassinate an Azerbaijani member of parliament and murdered an Azerbaijani security guard in an attack upon the Azerbaijani Embassy in Tehran on International Holocaust Memorial Day earlier this year. READ MORE