detained in Iran whose fate became intertwined with that of an Iranian engineer wanted by the United States said she assumed she would have been held much longer and said her boyfriend's contact with Elon Musk might have been "fundamental" to her release.
release on 8 January, Cecilia Sala discussed the three-nation negotiation that freed her after 21 days in detention.
detained an Iranian national, Mohammad Abedini, on a US warrant and their fates became intertwined. After three weeks of negotiations that Premier Giorgia Meloni called "diplomatic triangulation," Sala went home, and Abedini returned to Iran.
Chora Media podcast platform and Il Foglio daily, said her boyfriend Daniele Ranieri had contacted Musk's Italy representative, Andrea Stroppa, after noting a report that Musk had met with Iran's UN ambassador, suggesting he had contacts with Tehran. The United States and Iran don't have diplomatic relations.
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New York Times story about his role, Musk said he “did not have any interaction with Iran. Just recommended support from the US side."
Mar-a-Lago and met with Trump. Stroppa has since tweeted a photoshopped image of Musk eating a plate of pasta, referring to Sala's mother's reported promise to cook Musk his favourite pasta the next time he is in Italy to thank him for his intervention.
Western prisoners have been held for over a year or more. She said she also feared Trump's arrival in the White House could have meant a much longer detention because of regional tensions between Israel and Iran.
"If Donald Trump had come out in the press saying publicly that he wanted particular retaliation against some Iranians, my situation could have been very complicated," she said. "I was sure that I would be inside a lot more because everybody else has been inside a lot more."
solitary confinement without her glasses or contact lenses that she needs to see, Sala said she was interrogated while hooded for up to 10 hours a day by someone speaking "perfect English" and who knew a lot about Italy.
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