Senior official calls for release of Post reporter in Iran
A senior Obama administration official on Tuesday called on Iran to release a Washington Post journalist and his wife, as well as two other Americans “There is absolutely no reason for this to occur,” said Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman at a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The arrest of the Post’s Iran correspondent, Jason Rezaian, who holds U.S. and Iranian citizenship, , Sherman said. She said the State Department has used “the appropriate channels, principally the Swiss,’’ to convey its ...
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