Mom visits ex-Marine sentenced to death in Iran

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Mom visits ex-Marine sentenced to death in Iran

U.S. citizen Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, accused by Iran of spying for the CIA, sits in Tehran's revolutionary court, in Iran. (AP)/ FLINT, Mich. - The mother of a former U.S. Marine sentenced to death in Iran on a spying conviction has visited her son in an Iranian prison, a spokesman for the Michigan family said Tuesday. Eric Volz said that Benhaz Hekmati was able to see her 28-year-old son Amir several times during a visit to Iran. The visit was first reported by The New York Times. Volz said the trip went well, and there were no problems with ...

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