Iran embassy defends female citizen in bomb case

The Embassy of Iran has sought to restore the reputation of a 21-year-old Iranian woman whose name appeared in a bomb-case news report.

Fatemeh Ghaheri, 21, was wrongly identified in the report as a suspect in the Valentine’s Day bomb blasts in Bangkok after police questioned her, the embassy said in its letter to the Nation.

"The Thai Royal Police investigated her house and questioned her (inside her house accompanying several reporters and cameramen) on the recent explosion incident in Bangkok.

While the Royal Thai Police cleared and acquitted her, but gave her name to the Nation newspaper to be published as the sixth suspect."

Ghaheri has called on the embassy for help to restore her reputation, innocence, dignity, and to protect her security.

The letter said the woman has lived in Bangkok for her language course at the Australian Language Express. The institute's student card shows she has been its student since March 21, 2011.