Iran detains British-Iranian academic - New York-based rights group

A British-Iranian academic was detained in Iran by the country'sRevolutionary Guards in mid-April, the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) reported on Wednesday.Britain's Foreign Office (FCO) said it was urgently seeking information from Iran about the reported arrest of Abbas Edalat, a dual British-Iranian national who is a professor of computer science at Imperial College in London.CHRI said Edalat had travelled to Iran from his home in London at an unknown date for academic