Melbourne academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert’s freedom celebrations have been marred by Iranian propaganda videos claiming she and her husband are spies.
Melbourne academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert’s freedom celebrations after her 804-day jail horror have been marred by an all-out Iranian attack on her denials that she is a spy.
Three propaganda videos posted online since Dr Moore-Gilbert’s release from prison in Iran also include previously unpublished pictures of her husband Ruslan Hodorov, an Israeli of Russian heritage, whom the rogue state also claims is a spy.
Images of the couple’s wedding and Dr Moore-Gilbert’s pre-arrest travels in the Middle East — including to Israel — are featured in the so-called exposé, along with shots of her in army greens claimed to have been taken in a training camp in Haifa.
“After being recruited by the Israeli spying services, she succeeded in being accepted at the University of Cambridge in England,” one of the Farsi-language videos claims.
“She also got her British citizenship.”
The videos, produced by a group claiming to be Iranian-American lawyers, were released just days after Dr Moore-Gilbert was returned to Australia through an extraordinary prisoner swap deal last week.
Friends said she was “doing better than expected” in quarantine, recovering from her two-year ordeal in hellhole Iranian prisons.
Read the article by Stephen Drill in the Herald Sun.