British embassy worker on trial in Iran

Britain's Foreign Office expressed its “outrage” over the decision of Iranian authorities to put on trial a worker at the British Embassy in Tehran today.

A spokeswoman confirmed that Hossein Rassam was pictured among the accused at a mass trial which began this morning.

She said: “This is completely unacceptable and directly contradicts assurances we had been given repeatedly by senior Iranian officials.”

Mr Rassam, the Embassy’s chief political analyst, was the last of nine British Embassy workers to be freed following their arrest in June.

The nine staff were held after the disputed re-election of president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the street protests that followed.