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Originally Posted by eightpot
Some naivety indeed on timing if nothing else - I imagine on some level they hoped their openess of traveling with glad hearts to meet people and share experience would prevent focus from authorities rather than magnify it, though at this present moment in time there's a case for supposing Iran would have picked anyone up so their adversaries have to ask very politely if they wouldn't mind giving them back.
One hopes they are at least allowed to be held together and not separated.
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I think this reply is echoing some of the naivety the defendants have shown - they made it public that they were researching something and talking to people. To a paranoid, indoctrinated regime member that is spying. Tourists come to take pictures, not interview people.
I don't think the Iranian authorities pick foreign travellers and accuse them of espionage, but if you hand them the case on a plate...
I don't know of mixed prisons in the UK and they certainly don't have them in Iran.
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