The Italian outlet Chora Media, where Sala also works, said that she had left Rome on December 12 “with ... the laws of the Islamic republic of Iran,” but Italian Foreign Minister Antonio ...

She said she had read that Italy had arrested an Iranian engineer three days earlier at the request of the United States. The ...

Italy and Iran summoned each other's ambassadors on Thursday, clashing over the detention of an Italian journalist in Tehran two weeks ago, with Rome demanding she be immediately released.

After three weeks of negotiations that Premier Giorgia Meloni called “diplomatic triangulation,” Sala went home and Abedini returned to Iran. Sala, a journalist with the Chora Media podcast ...

Rome — An Italian journalist detained in Iran for three weeks and whose fate became intertwined with that of an Iranian engineer wanted by the United States was freed Wednesday and is heading ...

Italian journalist Cecilia Sala has told how Elon Musk played a pivotal role in her release from an Iranian detention center.

Rome's ambassador to Tehran, Paola Amadei, has visited Sala but a care package she gave officials for the Italian reporter has not been passed on to her, Italian media said. Guariglia told Iran's ...

Iran's ambassador in Rome, Mohammad Reza Sabouri, was hauled into the foreign ministry to discuss the case, Italy's foreign ministry said. Italy "requested the immediate release" of Sala ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Cecilia Sala, left, an Italian journalist who was detained on Dec.