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 ...

The Italian journalist was released soon after Elon Musk met with an Iranian ambassador, officials in Iran said. So was an ...

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 ...

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

The complicated saga began on Dec. 16, when the U.S. Justice Department announced charges against two Iranian citizens accused of supplying the drone technology to Iran that was used in a January ...

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.