Iran Press/Iran news: The head of Research and Technology at Tehran's Tarbiat Modarres َUniversity, Ya'ghoub Fathollahi commented on the arrest of the Iranian scientist by the FBI saying: "Professor Masoud Soleimani is a top Iranian Haematologist and stem cell researcher who was arrested in early October 2018 by the FBI."
Fathollahi added "The Iranian scientist has spent the past eight months in a prison in the United States. He was invited by the Mayo Clinic, an academic medical centre in Rochester, Minnesota, to do some research at the clinic, but he was arrested on a flight to United States by FBI agents, before the plane even touched down at the airport, " Iran Press reported.
The US government, or the FBI has not given any indication why the Iranian professor was arrested or for that matter, why he has been imprisoned for the past eight months, he said.
Fathollahi added: "Only recently the BBC has reported the arrest and jailing of the Iranian scientist, some eight months after the actual arrest. This has raised eyebrows and many are asking Iranian authorities to follow up on the case of arrested professor Masoud Soleimani."
It should be noted that a preliminary hearing of Professor Soleimani's case in a court of law has been adjourned or postponed by the US authorities at least twice, and the federal government has so far not commented on the arrest of top Iranian scientist Masoud Soleimani.
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