{"id":3429,"date":"2025-10-06T13:02:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T13:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/?p=3429"},"modified":"2025-10-18T16:18:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T16:18:03","slug":"court-hearing-held-in-case-of-alleged-sexual-relations-of-catherine-shakdam-with-iranian-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/court-hearing-held-in-case-of-alleged-sexual-relations-of-catherine-shakdam-with-iranian-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Hearing Held in Case of Alleged &#8220;Sexual Relations of Catherine Shakdam with Iranian Officials&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The jury of Iran&#8217;s political and press courts found Mostafa Kavakebian, a political activist and the editor-in-chief of the Mardomsalari newspaper, guilty. The case was filed against him due to his claims regarding &#8220;Catherine Shakdam&#8217;s sexual relations with Iranian government officials for espionage purposes.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Akbar Nasrollahi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/%d8%af%d8%a7%d8%af%da%af%d8%a7%d9%87-%d9%85%d8%b7%d8%a8%d9%88%d8%b9%d8%a7%d8%aa%d8%9b-%d9%85%d8%b5%d8%b7%d9%81%db%8c-%da%a9%d9%88%d8%a7%da%a9%d8%a8%db%8c%d8%a7%d9%86-%d9%88-%d8%a8%d9%87%d8%b1%d9%88\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/%d8%af%d8%a7%d8%af%da%af%d8%a7%d9%87-%d9%85%d8%b7%d8%a8%d9%88%d8%b9%d8%a7%d8%aa%d8%9b-%d9%85%d8%b5%d8%b7%d9%81%db%8c-%da%a9%d9%88%d8%a7%da%a9%d8%a8%db%8c%d8%a7%d9%86-%d9%88-%d8%a8%d9%87%d8%b1%d9%88\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the spokesperson for the jury of Iran&#8217;s political and press courts<\/a>, announced in an interview with state media that the jury found Mostafa Kavakebian guilty of &#8220;spreading falsehoods, disturbing public opinion, and publishing false news.&#8221; The case stemmed from Kavakebian&#8217;s interview with Iran&#8217;s state television news network, where he made allegations about &#8220;Catherine Shakdam&#8217;s sexual relations&#8221; with Iranian government officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mostafa Kavakebian is the editor-in-chief of Mardomsalari newspaper and a former member of Iran&#8217;s parliament. Previously, the press court jury had also found Kavakebian guilty in another case related to his claims about Catherine Shakdam. In an interview with Hamshahri Online, Kavakebian stated: &#8220;Catherine Shakdam resided in Iran for eight years, during which she established sexual relations with over 100 Iranian political and military officials for espionage purposes.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Catherine Shakdam, a French-British citizen who collaborated with Iranian media and institutions for a period, has denied the allegations of espionage and sexual relations with Iranian officials in interviews with various media outlets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Akbar Nasrollahi, the final court verdict will be issued subsequently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The jury of Iran&#8217;s political and press courts found Mostafa Kavakebian, a political activist and the editor-in-chief of the Mardomsalari newspaper, guilty. The case was filed against him due to his claims regarding &#8220;Catherine Shakdam&#8217;s sexual relations with Iranian government officials for espionage purposes.&#8221; Akbar Nasrollahi, the spokesperson for the jury of Iran&#8217;s political and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-repression-of-media"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3431,"href":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429\/revisions\/3431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}