Iranian American Spy

Iran on Monday executed a former translator convicted of spying for the US and Israel, including helping to locate a top Iranian general killed later by the Americans, the judiciary said.

The United States said on Tuesday it was "troubled" by Iran's reported 18-year sentence of an Iranian American accused of spying, a week after two other dual citizens were sentenced amid tense bilateral relations.

Unnamed Americans have contacted Iran for a deal to swap Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, convicted and jailed in Iran on spying charges, for other unspecified detainees, according to a senior Iranian official quoted on Sunday.

A senior Iranian commander says that the country has reverse-engineered an American spy drone captured by Tehran's armed forces last year and has begun building a copy. General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, who is the Chief of the Aerospace Division of the powerful Revolutionary Guards, was quoted on Sunday by the semi-official Mehr news agency as saying th...

A senior Iranian commander says the country has reverse-engineered an American spy drone captured by Tehran's armed forces last year and has begun building a copy.

The mother of a former US 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 on Tuesday.

The US has condemned the death sentence handed to American-Iranian ex-Marine Amir Mirzai Hekmati in Iran and asked Tehran to release him immediately.

The Obama administration flatly rejected on Monday that a young Iranian-American man used a family trip to Iran as cover for espionage, after Iran issued the first death penalty against a U.S. citizen since the Islamic Revolution 33 years ago.

Iran on Monday executed a former translator convicted of spying for the US and Israel, including helping to locate a top Iranian general killed later by the Americans, the judiciary said.

The United States said on Tuesday it was "troubled" by Iran's reported 18-year sentence of an Iranian American accused of spying, a week after two other dual citizens were sentenced amid tense bilateral relations.

Unnamed Americans have contacted Iran for a deal to swap Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, convicted and jailed in Iran on spying charges, for other unspecified detainees, according to a senior Iranian official quoted on Sunday.

A senior Iranian commander says that the country has reverse-engineered an American spy drone captured by Tehran's armed forces last year and has begun building a copy. General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, who is the Chief of the Aerospace Division of the powerful Revolutionary Guards, was quoted on Sunday by the semi-official Mehr news agency as saying th...

A senior Iranian commander says the country has reverse-engineered an American spy drone captured by Tehran's armed forces last year and has begun building a copy.

The mother of a former US 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 on Tuesday.

The US has condemned the death sentence handed to American-Iranian ex-Marine Amir Mirzai Hekmati in Iran and asked Tehran to release him immediately.

The Obama administration flatly rejected on Monday that a young Iranian-American man used a family trip to Iran as cover for espionage, after Iran issued the first death penalty against a U.S. citizen since the Islamic Revolution 33 years ago.