WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. and Iranian officials have reported that the Iranian government has released several dual-national prisoners. The Associated Press has confirmed that three of them were Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, former U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati and pastor Saeed Abedini. There were conflicting reports about the other prisoners. A ...

Trump said that if elected in 2016, he would successfully free four Americans serving jail sentences in Iran. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump told a crowd at the US Capitol that if elected in 2016, he would successfully free four Americans serving jail sentences in Iran in less than three months before he was ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's deputy foreign minister says Iranian diplomats discussed the case of Americans still held captive by Tehran. The issue was raised on the sidelines of negotiations in Vienna earlier this month that led to the landmark deal on curbing Iran's nuclear program. Abbas Araghchi told reporters in the Iranian capital on Wednesday ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate on Monday unanimously passed a resolution calling on Iranian officials to immediately release three Americans held in Iran and help locate a fourth. The measure, which passed 90-0, calls for Iran to free Saeed Abedini, Amir Hekmati and Jason Rezaian and cooperate with the U.S. government to locate and return former ...

[caption id="attachment_92270" align="alignright" width="195"] Iranian-American Amir Mirza Hekmati, who has been sentenced to death by Iran's Revolutionary Court on the charge of spying for the CIA, stands with Iraqi soldiers in this undated still image taken from video in an undisclosed location made available to Reuters TV on January 9, 2012.[/caption] DETROIT ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham dismissed media reports that Tehran had received a proposal from Washington on swapping ex-US marine Ali Hekmati with Iranian detainees in US jails. "We have received no official demand in this regard," Afkham told reporters in Tehran on Wednesday. She, meantime, said that a number ...

[caption id="attachment_141561" align="alignright" width="203"] The armed forces identification card of Iranian-American Amir Mirza Hekmati is seen in this undated still image taken from video in an undisclosed location made available to Reuters TV on January 9, 2012.[/caption] (Reuters) - The United States called on Tuesday for the release of U.S....

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Washington has requested Tehran to exchange Amir Mirzaee Hekmati, a spy that is serving a 10-year prison term in Iran on espionage charges, his attorney told Tasnim on Tuesday. The US has submitted the request via its Interest Section in Iran, the prisoners attorney Seyed Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaee told the Tasnim News Agency....

NEW YORK (AP) - The family of a former Marine imprisoned in Iran since his arrest three years ago on spying charges said his conditions have improved and he is now allowed to call home several times a week. The sister and brother-in-law of Amir Hekmati acknowledge that's a big step forward for a man who spent his first 16 months held in solitary confinement ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- A former U.S. Marine convicted of criminal charges in Iran after being accused of working for the CIA will appeal for a new trial after already seeing his sentence reduced once, an Iranian news agency reported Sunday. Amir Hekmati, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen born in Arizona, was arrested in August 2011, then tried, convicted ...

Amir Mirazai Hekmati, an American citizen of Iranian background who is in prison in Iran accused of spying, has written to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to insist that he is innocent and to urge the minister to save his case from falling prey to the historic diplomatic differences between Iran and the U.S. ISNA reports that in a letter ...

[caption id="attachment_92270" align="alignright" width="180"] Iranian-American Amir Mirza Hekmati, who has been sentenced to death by Iran's Revolutionary Court on the charge of spying for the CIA, stands with Iraqi soldiers in this undated still image taken from video in an undisclosed location made available to Reuters TV on January 9, 2012.[/caption] (Reuters) ...

Washington (CNN)-- Former U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati has been convicted in Iran by a secret court of "practical collaboration with the U.S. government" and sentenced to 10 years in prison, his sister told CNN on Friday. The news follows a public campaign by Hekmati's family to win his release from Iran, where he has been held for nearly three years ...

A reduced sentence for two Americans jailed in Iran may be possible, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in an exclusive interview with CNN's Jim Sciutto. "We have various clemency measures in Iran that can be introduced, happened in the past, can be introduced again in these cases," Zarif said in the interview this week from Davos,...

Advocates for a former Marine imprisoned in Tehran more than two years ago are seeking to use a diplomatic window created by the temporary nuclear agreement with Iran to gain his release. In a letter to President Obamareleased on Wednesday, four top former American defense and security officials urged immediate action to expedite the release of the ...

Relatives of Amir Hekmati, a former Marine imprisoned in Iran for more than two years on spying charges, asked the United States ambassador to the United Nations on Tuesday to press for his release when Irans presidential delegation visits the General Assembly next week. Representative Daniel T. Kildee, the Michigan Democrat who represents the familys ...

WASHINGTON The United States on Wednesday repeated its call for Tehran to help three Americans Robert Levinson, Amir Hekmati and Saeed Abedini return to their families after lengthy detentions in Iran. The State Department said in a statement that the U.S. is "respectfully" requesting the assistance from Iran's new president, Hasan Rouhani,...

Detroit A Michigan congressman Wednesday asked Secretary of State John Kerry to push for the release of an ex-Marine held in Iran on spying charges for about two years, including 16 months in solitary confinement. U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Flint, released a copy of a letter he sent to Kerry in which Kildee asks Kerry to make sure his department continues ...

[caption id="attachment_29047" align="alignright" width="300"] Iran executes two spies who worked for the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Israeli spy agency, the Mossad.[/caption] TEHRAN, Iran:Iranhanged two convicted spies on Sunday, one found guilty of working for Israel, the other for the United States, theTehranprosecutor's office ...

DETROIT (AP) -- An ex-Marine incarcerated in Iran for nearly two years says in the first letters written to family in Michigan that he is praying for his ailing father and that his grieving mother should not come visit him. Amir Hekmati's sister Sarah Hekmati told The Associated Press Tuesday that receiving the letters has been "very emotional" for ...