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Salehi calls on ICRC to determine fate of al-Sadr, 4 Iranian diplomats
GENEVA, March 1 (MNA) - The Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi met with the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Jakob Kellenberger on Monday.
During the meeting, Salehi called on the ICRC to determine the fate of Imam Musa al-Sadr, an Iranian-born Shia cleric who vanished without a trace in 1978.
In August 1978, al-Sadr departed for Libya with two companions to meet officials of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s government. They were never heard from again, and many believe they met with foul play at the hands of Gaddafi.
The Iranian Foreign Minister also urged Kellenberger to seriously pursue the case of four Iranian diplomats who were kidnapped in Lebanon in 1982.
Four Iranian nationals, chargé d’affaires Mohsen Mousavi, military attaché of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ahmad Motevasellian, Taqi Rastegar Moqaddam, a diplomat from the embassy, and Kazem Akhavan, a reporter and photographer from the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), were captured by a Phalangist militia while traveling to southern Lebanon on July 4, 1982, then handed over to the Zionist regime and transferred to a prison in occupied Palestine.
Kellenberger, for his part, said that Iran is playing a significant role in promoting security in the Middle East and expressed hope that Iran would continue its cooperation with the ICRC.
During the meeting, Salehi called on the ICRC to determine the fate of Imam Musa al-Sadr, an Iranian-born Shia cleric who vanished without a trace in 1978.
In August 1978, al-Sadr departed for Libya with two companions to meet officials of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s government. They were never heard from again, and many believe they met with foul play at the hands of Gaddafi.
The Iranian Foreign Minister also urged Kellenberger to seriously pursue the case of four Iranian diplomats who were kidnapped in Lebanon in 1982.
Four Iranian nationals, chargé d’affaires Mohsen Mousavi, military attaché of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ahmad Motevasellian, Taqi Rastegar Moqaddam, a diplomat from the embassy, and Kazem Akhavan, a reporter and photographer from the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), were captured by a Phalangist militia while traveling to southern Lebanon on July 4, 1982, then handed over to the Zionist regime and transferred to a prison in occupied Palestine.
Kellenberger, for his part, said that Iran is playing a significant role in promoting security in the Middle East and expressed hope that Iran would continue its cooperation with the ICRC.
