Detainees blamed for ‘activities’
Two Iranian Americans detained on charges of spying have “accepted that they carried out some activities,” an Iranian judge was quoted as saying.
The Iranian judiciary last month said academic Haleh Esfandiari and social scientist Kian Tajbakhsh were accused of spying. The United States has denied that they are spies.
“They have accepted that they carried out some activities, but they say their aim was to help,” Judge Hossein Haddad told the Iranian Students News Agency, speaking about Esfandiari and Tajbakhsh. It was not clear if this referred to an admission of spying.
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