French citizen arrested in Iran to stand trial tomorrow

The trial of a French teaching assistant Clotilde Reiss will resume tomorrow, Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi was quoted as saying by the Iranian Irna news agency. "If France wants to address this problem, it must respect the judicial laws of Iran," he said. Regarding the issue is whether the probability of exchange Reiss on two arrested Iranian nationals in France, he replied that "We need to wait for the verdict."

Reiss, who is out of jail on bail and staying at the French embassy, is accused of taking part in a Western plot to destabilize the Iranian government after the June 12 vote in which hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected (...)