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Tehran Denies Arresting U.S. Citizen On Espionage Charges

January 07 2011

Iran

The Iranian government has denied accounts of a U.S. citizen supposedly being arrested on charges of espionage, Bloomberg News reports.

Two Iranian state-run news organizations previously reported that a 55-year-old American woman was arrested last week in the border town of Nordouz and found to have espionage equipment implanted in her teeth. The woman was said to have entered Iran via Armenia, according to the reports

On Thursday, the government denied those stories through...

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