Austria’s former ambassador to Iran has admitted to efforts by European embassies in Tehran to engage in intelligence gathering in Iran in aftermath of last June’s presidential elections.
Michael Posti reiterated in a Woodrow Wilson Center’s panel discussion European support for the so-called pro-reform movement in Iran that had falsely alleged fraud in Iran’s tenth presidential election that marked historic 85-percent voter participation, Fars News Agency reports.
He also admitted to obtaining plenty of information using the twitter and the dispatching of diplomatic personnel of European embassies in Tehran throughout the city, complaining that Iranian officials protested such moves as interference in their internal affairs.
