Marine veteran imprisoned in Iran secretly convicted, handed 10-year sentence ...
A U.S. Marine veteran who was charged with spying after visiting his grandmother in Iran was secretly convicted of “practical collaboration with the American government” and sentenced to 10 years in an Iranian prison, The New York Times reported. Amir Hekmati, 30, an American of Iranian descent, has been detained since August 2011 on charges of spying for the CIA and was sentenced to death, but those charges were reportedly overturned./ Hekmati's new lawyer, Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaei, one of the most influential in the country, told the ...
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