In February 2016, Daroshafaei was arrested in Tehran- Iran, he was taken from his home by judiciary officers.
(meta data) TITLE: Iran: Former BBC Journalist Is Arrested - The New York Times (meta data) AUTHOR: https://www.nytimes.com/by/rick-gladstone (meta data) PUBLISHED DATETIME: 2016-01-16 Skip to contentSkip to site indexMiddle EastLog InToday's PaperMiddle East|Iran: Former BBC Journalist Is Arrested Supported by World Briefing # Iran: Former BBC Journalist Is Arrested By Rick Gladstone Feb 3, 2016 A former journalist with the British Broadcasting Corporation's Persian service was arrested in Iran on Wednesday, Iranian activists outside the country reported, just as Iran's foreign minister embarked on a trip to Britain, the first such visit in more than a decade. The former journalist, Bahman Daroshafaei, a dual citizen of Britain and Iran, was taken into custody for undisclosed reasons in Tehran, where he had been working as a translator, according to an account on Iranwire, a news service founded by expatriate Iranian journalists. The arrest may have been intended by hard-line factions in Iran, which are suspicious of improved ties with the West, to embarrass Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who has been seeking greater engagement. A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 8 of the New York edition with the headline: Middle East; Iran: Former BBC Journalist Is Arrested. Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe ### Related Coverage ## Iran Frees Americans, Including Jason Rezaian, in Prisoner Swap Jan 16, 2016Image ## Site Index ### news ### opinion ### arts ### living ### more ### Subscribe
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Bahman Daroshafaei
Abstract.
Bahman Daroshafaei (Persian: بهمن دارالشفایی) is an Iranian-British journalist, translator, blogger and film maker. Daroshafaei is a former journalist of the BBC's Persian service. 
Daroshafaei left BBC Persian at 2013 and returned to Iran. 
He had been working as a translator for Mahi Publishing Company and for an Iranian NGO.