Pope Francis would be welcomed with open arms in Iran if he were to accept an invitation to visit the Middle Eastern country, ...

which said the journalist landed in Rome on Wednesday afternoon. “Our journalist landed in Ciampino (airport), after being released this morning from Evin prison in Tehran after 21 days of ...

While Washington was hoping for another outcome with Abedini, the agreement between Rome and Tehran appears to have been a classic case of hostage diplomacy — albeit one heightened by the ...

ROME — An Italian journalist detained in Iran whose fate became ... that resulted in her freedom after 21 days in detention.

Mohammad Abedini's release comes days after Iran freed Italian journalist Cecilia Sala from a Tehran jail following intense diplomatic efforts by Rome. Iran announced on Sunday that a national ...

An Italian journalist detained in Iran whose fate became intertwined with that of an Iranian engineer wanted by the United States said she assumed she would have been held much longer and said her ...

Though Rome and Tehran have both publicly denied any connection between the fates of Sala and Abedini, Nathalie Tocci, director of Rome’s Institute of International Affairs, said Abedini’s ...

Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist who had been detained at Tehran's notorious Evin Prison since her arrest on Dec. 19, was released Wednesday and has since landed a Rome's Ciampino airport, where ...

Abedini Najafabadi has denied all charges, and officials in Tehran have condemned his detention as politically motivated. Iran’s foreign ministry has summoned the Italian and Swiss ambassadors, ...