Iran was expecting Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a British-Australian Eastern investigator who served a 10-year prison sentence, to lure her Israeli-Russian husband into the country, the Australian Herald Sun reported on Sunday.
The report cites a letter from Moore-Glibert to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison suggesting she was used as an enemy in a plot to arrest her husband.
Kylie Moore-Gilbert, British-Australian academic
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The man, Ruslan Hodorov, was seen by Iranians as a spy for Mossad – Israel’s foreign intelligence service.
“The Revolutionary Guard has imprisoned me in these horrific conditions for over nine months to remove me personally and my government,” the letter states.
“They have also tried to use me as an enemy in a diabolical plot to lure my husband, a permanent resident of Australia, into an Iranian prison with me,” the academic says.
Moore-Gilbert was detained by the Iranian authorities in 2018 when she was about to leave the country, where she attended an academic conference.
Image from a propaganda video from Iran by Moore-Gilbert
She was charged with treason and sentenced to 10 years in prison, spending 804 days in jail for her final release in a suspicious prison swap while Thailand released three Iranians.
According to the Sun Herald, Moore-Gilbert is now seeking a divorce because her husband fell in a relationship with her colleague while she was in prison in Iran.