Iason Athanasiadis is a writer, photographer, political analyst, and television producer who has contributed to a range of media, including the BBC, Al Jazeera English, and Channel 4.
A graduate of Oxford University, Iason has written for the Christian Science Monitor, the Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian, the Toronto Star, the Spectator, Newsweek, the Washington Times, the Athens News, and Australia's leading current affairs magazine The Diplomat.
[3] He was detained in Tehran on 17 June 2009, in the course of his reporting on the disputed Iranian elections.
No details of his alleged crime were released and no charges were made public.
Iason holds a master's degree from the Tehran School of International Relations.