Diplomatic Tensions Rise as Iran Summons Austrian Ambassador Over Hezbollah Dispute

PeopleDiplomats ♦ Published: August 28, 2024; 14:46 ♦ (Vindobona)

In a new diplomatic development, the Iranian government summoned the Austrian Ambassador to Tehran, Wolf Dietrich Heim, to the Iranian Foreign Ministry. This move comes in direct response to Austria's earlier summoning of the Iranian Ambassador to Vienna, Abbas Bagherpour Ardekani, following his controversial social media post that included symbols of the Hezbollah militia, which is banned in Austria.

Austria's ambassador in Tehran, Wolf Dietrich Heim, was summoned by the Iranian Foreign Ministry. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons; sipo (https://www.flickr.com/photos/siposoft) / Flickr Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0 DEED, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en)