The latest reports indicate that the Iranian government has charged Haleh today with “trying to topple the regime” according to a statement read on Iran’s state television.

Iran’s Intelligence Ministry accused Esfandiari, director of Middle East programs at the Smithsonian’s Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, of trying to foment a soft revolution by setting up a network “against the sovereignty” of Iran. Esfandiari was imprisoned May 8 after more than four months under virtual house arrest.

Haleh was allowed a one-minute phone call on Saturday to her mother. she only could say that she was awaiting “clarification of her situation”.