The British couple, which was on a motorcycle tour around the world, was detained in Iran, the British Foreign Office said on Saturday.
The couple, Craig and Lindsay Foreman, were last heard on social media in early January. But this week Iranian state media reported that two British nationals had been detained on suspicion of “security crimes”.
The British Office for Foreign Affairs confirmed their custody after the Iranian reports, and on Saturday announced a statement on behalf of the Para family.
“This unexpected turn of the event has caused significant concerns for our whole family, and we are deeply focused on ensuring their safety and well -being during this attempt,” the family said.
Mr. and Mrs. Foreman, both in the mid-1950s, were on a motorcycle tour in Australia, where Mrs. Foreman was ready to deliver work at a conference on psychology. They live in Spain, where Mrs. Foreman worked as a psychologist and life trainer and Mr. Foreman as a carpenter.
The detention of the married couple for the first time came to light when Iranian state media Posted a photo British ambassador to Iran, Hugo Shorter, meeting two British nationals charged with “security crimes”.
Iranian state media blurred the faces of the couple in the picture, taken at the Prosecutor’s Office in Kerman, the city of more than 600 miles east of Tehran’s capital.
In her statement, the family said that “he actively hangs out with the British government and the relevant authorities, working hard to move to the movement of this question.”
It is unclear how long the couple is held in Iran. Prior to their detention, foremans shared their journeys on social media. They were last published on January 3, saying they were in Iran.
“In order to leave our mind at rest, we have the most believing time in Iran,” the couple said in a Facebook post, adding that they were traveling with a guide. On Instagram, Mrs. Foreman posted a picture of herself that she meets the theologian on the Madras in Isfahan, where she wrote that “traveling still teach me that the core of humanity shares it.”
The couple moved to Iran from Armenia and planned to go to Pakistan the following, they said.
“The Government in the UK advises against all but essential trips to these areas, and news painting a pretty gloomy picture,” Posted on Facebook December 30: “We want to find out ourselves. That’s why we’re here. “
The post included two paintings laterally: one of the orange and yellow tickets of the Iran’s Foreign Affairs Office, advising British citizens not to travel to Iran, and another photo of the Green Lawns of the Mosque, a painting whose location was composed of Norduz, near the Iranian border with Armenia .
Foreign Minister advises against all trips to Iran, Warning issuance That “British and British-Iranian dual nationals are exposed to a significant risk of arrest, tests or detention.”
Iran has repeatedly closed foreigners and double nationals, including Iranian-American in the last decade citizen and Italian journalist detained last year and the Swedish Officer of the EU arrested 2023.
Several British-Iranian Double Citizen was among them arrested, including Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, which was held six years; Aras Amiri, 32-year-old art student; and Abbas Edalat, academic and anti -war activist. Mrs. Amiri, arrested as she visited her grandmother and accused of spying, was Published after three years in prison and Mr. Edalat was released After a few months.
Human Rights Groups have announced that many of these detention are part of the intentional policy to draw concessions from other countries, including prisoner replacement.
