Embassy blasts inaction on 4 kidnapped Iranians

The Iranian Embassy in Beirut condemned Friday the lack of international attention to the case of four Iranian diplomats who were kidnapped in Lebanon 30 years ago. In a statement, the embassy said Tehran had asked the U.N. to establish an investigative committee to look into the disappearance of the four, “but there was no reception of this proposal up to now, unfortunately.” During the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, three Iranian diplomats, Mohsen Mousavi, Ahmad Motevaselian and Taghi Rastegar Moghadam, along with an Iranian photographer, Kazem Akhavan, disappeared and the Iranian government says they were taken by a militia at the Barbara checkpoint north of Beirut. The embassy said that a militia that had links to Israel at the time was responsible for the incident, and turned the Iranians over to Israel.