Exclusive: Sources say senior Iranian diplomat detained in March

By using Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A senior Iranian diplomat linked to Iran's reformists was detained in Tehran in March, possibly as part of a crackdown on dissidents in advance of the June presidential election, sources conversant in the case instructed Reuters on Tuesday. Bagher Asadi, who has previously been a senior diplomat at Iran's U.N. mission in New York and used to be most recently a director on the secretariat of the so-known as D8 group of developing countries in Istanbul, was arrested in mid-March in the Iranian capital in step with the sources, who requested anonymity. …