German police tried to minimize damage on Saturday, about a day after drawing sharp criticism from the EU over the arbitrary delay in coordinating nuclear talks with Tehran, Enrique More, on his return from an official mission in the Iranian capital.
Police told the German newspaper Der Standard that the decision to detain him along with two other members of the union, who accompanied him back from Tehran, was apparently made following an automatic alert created in its electronic computer system "and not in the identity of specific people."
The statement said that "after it became clear that the alerts were not related to them, the diplomats were able to continue their journey, after a delay of 40 minutes."
Police explained that this was an alert created only because of the destinations on the flight ticket, and no more, but Politico reported that from talks with EU officials, it is estimated that the automatic alert was created in view of the unusual route of its flights and the fact that it changed the booking several times due to arrival uncertainty. Of a teacher until the last minute.
As you may recall, a teacher traveled to Tehran to submit a compromise proposal to the ayatollahs regarding their demand to remove the Revolutionary Guards from the US State Department's list of terrorist organizations.
This requirement is in fact the only thing that prevents the completion of the current round of talks in Vienna and the renewal of the nuclear agreement, but the US administration insists that expelling the organization will not involve an agreement but will be discussed separately, or alternatively, willing to remove non-terrorist parts of the organization.
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