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Third Iranian Diplomat Defects

Amidst increasing international pressure on Iran’s nuclear program, and continued controversy for the delayed release of one of three American hikers, reports come of a third Iranian diplomat defecting in Europe.

Farzad Farhangian, the press attach at the Iranian Embassy in Brussels, left the embassy and defected to Norway on Friday, AP reported.

Farhangian follows the defections of two other Iranian diplomats, Hossein Alizadeh, who defected last Monday; and Mohammed Reza Heydari, who defected in January.

“I don’t consider myself anymore a diplomat standing beside a brutal Iranian regime,” said Alizadeh in an interview with the AP.

The defections symbolize the Iranian regime’s power slipping further and further from a people with exceedingly high discontent for the ruling power, say analysts.