Iran denies Musk involvement in Cecilia Sala's release

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 16 - Iran has denied a New York Times report that Elon Musk helped secure the release of Italian journalist Cecilia Sala by contacting Iran's ambassador to the UN, Amir Saeed Iravani.
    According to the Isna news agency, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei described the report as "a media fabrication and a fantasy".
    Sala, 29, a freelance reporter for Il Foglio newspaper and a podcaster at Chora News, returned to Italy last week after being released by Iran following her arrest in Tehran on December 19.
    Last weekend Italy released Mohammad Abedini Najafabadi, an Iranian engineer arrested on December 16 at Milan's Malpensa airport on a US warrant. (ANSA).