Well, European External Action Service itself is (according to wikipedia-article is the exact institution to handle such crisis/hostage cituation.
Call me synical, but I have to question why an employee of EU diplomatic corp is spending his holiday on middle east. I don’t it’s unreasonable to assume that EU does some security related intelligence operations in middle east, so to me their employee spending a holiday in Iran sounds like a coded speech for “their work doesn’t fall under diplomatic protection”.
Still, under normal diplomatic relations this still wouldn’t translate to jailing someone for over a year. I don’t believe whatever he was involved in is immoral enough to warrant such.
Well, European External Action Service itself is (according to wikipedia-article is the exact institution to handle such crisis/hostage cituation.
Call me synical, but I have to question why an employee of EU diplomatic corp is spending his holiday on middle east. I don’t it’s unreasonable to assume that EU does some security related intelligence operations in middle east, so to me their employee spending a holiday in Iran sounds like a coded speech for “their work doesn’t fall under diplomatic protection”.
Still, under normal diplomatic relations this still wouldn’t translate to jailing someone for over a year. I don’t believe whatever he was involved in is immoral enough to warrant such.