The case of the prominent Italian journalist detained in Iran is a test for Italy’s government as it gets caught up in Iran’s shadow war with the U.S.

Italian journalist Cecilia Sala has been detained in Tehran, Italy’s foreign ministry said in a statement Friday. She was in Iran on a reporting trip.

Italy is working “tirelessly” to bring home a journalist who has been under arrest in Iran for more than a week, the country said on Friday.

The arrest of Italian journalist Cecilia Sala has led to a diplomatic rift between Rome and Tehran, while US emerges as the third player. On US' warrant, Italy had earlier arrested an Iranian national.

Italian journalist and podcaster Cecilia Sala has been arrested in Iran and jailed in Tehran's Evin prison for political prisoners, the Italian government announced on Friday. “Italy is working tirelessly to free her,

Complicating matters are indications that Sala's fate has become intertwined with that of an Iranian man who was detained in Italy on 16 December, just three days before her arrest in Tehran. #EuropeN

Iran confirmed the arrest of Italian journalist Cecilia Sala for "violating the laws of the Islamic Republic", Iran's official IRNA news agency reported on Monday.

Cecilia Sala, 29, who works for the newspaper Il Foglio and the podcast company Chora Media, was detained in Tehran on December 19 but her arrest was only made public on Friday