The death of a 22-year-old Iranian woman, Emini, sparked a "hijab demonstration". The woman flocked to the capital Tehran to protest, angering the government.

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[Central News Agency] Iran's Fars news agency (Fars) reported that a British-Iranian dual citizen has been arrested for leaking information about the demonstrations triggered by the death of Kurdish woman Emini to the BBC and other foreign media. .

"Agence France-Presse" reported that the BBC, which has a global service including a Persian-language channel, has repeatedly complained that its journalists and their relatives have been threatened and intimidated at home and abroad, and the culprit is Iran.

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Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, died on September 16 after being detained by religious police for allegedly violating strict dress codes for women, setting off a wave of protests across Iran for two months.

Tehran has accused the UK of inciting the demonstrations, citing hostile reports in its Persian-language media.

The Fars news agency reported only that Iran's intelligence agencies and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had arrested the person in Isfahan, Iran's third largest city, but did not disclose his name, gender or date of arrest. .

Iran does not recognize dual citizenship.

According to reports, the arrested persons were "sources of several hostile TV channels, notably the BBC and Iran International".

The latter is a Saudi-linked channel that broadcasts from London.

The Fars news agency points out that this individual has "direct connections and kinship with some of the channel's journalists" and that, in addition to cooperating with the channel, this individual also collaborated with "certain counter-revolutionaries overseas in inciting civil disobedience, riots during the recent riots". , Violation of safety regulations, vandalism and damage to public property.”

Iran has summoned the British ambassador to Tehran four times since the protests broke out.

Britain summoned a senior Iranian diplomat in London earlier this month, saying some journalists living in the country had received death threats.

Volant Media, the London-based broadcaster behind Iran International TV, said two of its British-Iranian journalists working in the UK had received death threats from "credible" Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The network has given extensive coverage of the Iranian demonstrations.

Iran's judiciary news website Mizan Online reported on the 22nd that the ministry's spokesman Masoud Setayeshi said that during the wave of "riots", Iran had arrested 40 foreigners.