Judicial authorities in Iran have charged three Europeans with espionage

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Iran has charged two French nationals and a Belgian with espionage and acts against the country’s national security, a spokesman for the judiciary announced today, according to the semi-official Student News Network news agency.

The Islamic Republic has accused its foreign rivals of fueling the riots that erupted in Iran three months ago after the death in custody of 22-year-old Iranian-Kurdish Mahsha Amini, who was arrested by morality police for not wearing her hijab properly.

Mahsha Amini’s death set off a chain reaction in Iran, bringing the authorities to face one of the biggest challenges since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Within a month of Amini’s death, the protest movement that started in her native Iranian Kurdistan has spread across Iran: to schools, universities and even oil refineries.

The news agency, however, did not say in which area or when the charges were laid.

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