DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An Iranian-British woman serving a five-year prison sentence in Iran for plotting the “soft toppling” of its government while travelling with her toddler daughter faces new charges that could add 16 years to her sentence, her husband said Monday. State media in Iran also did not immediately report on the new charges. A U.N. panel of experts recently described the practice as part of an “emerging pattern” since the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Iranian-Canadian national Abdolrasoul Dorri Esfahani, who helped his country negotiate the nuclear deal, received a five-year prison sentence on espionage charges. Former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who disappeared in Iran in 2007 while on an unauthorized CIA mission, remains missing as well.

Source: National Post October 09, 2017 11:44 UTC