AMSTERDAM – Dutch foreign ministry officials called in Iran’s ambassador on Tuesday to formally object to Iranian authorities confiscating luggage belonging to a Netherlands diplomat at Tehran’s airport last month.
According to a ministry statement, Iranian officials created a diplomatic crisis on January 28, 2026, when they compelled the Dutch representative to surrender his official diplomatic bags at the Tehran airport. Ministry officials called the action “unacceptable.”
Dutch authorities have made multiple requests for Iran to return the confiscated items immediately, though officials have not disclosed what the luggage contained. The formal summoning of Iran’s ambassador came after Iranian authorities published video of the airport incident on the internet.
