Jailed Australian-UK Academic Claims Iran Tried to Recruit Her as Spy

An Australian-British academic jailed in Tehran has claimed Iran tried to recruit her as a spy in exchange for her release.
Jailed Australian-UK Academic Claims Iran Tried to Recruit Her as Spy
Dr. Kylie Moore-Gilbert from the University of Melbourne has been sentenced to 10 years behind bars in Tehran, Iran, in September 2019. AAP Image/Supplied by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
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An Australian British academic jailed in Iran is claiming that Tehran tried to recruit her as a spy in exchange for her release.

Kylie Moore-Gilbert, an Islamic studies lecturer at the University of Melbourne, has described her ordeal in handwritten letters smuggled out of Tehran’s notorious Evin jail and seen by The Guardian. In the letters, she described feeling “abandoned and forgotten.”
Isabel van Brugen
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Isabel van Brugen is an award-winning journalist. She holds a master's in newspaper journalism from City, University of London.
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