Via Fars News Agency -
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian-American detainees arrested by Iran on charges of espionage have made confessions, a senior Iranian judiciary official said here on Sunday.
"Regarding the espionage of some Iranians, we have had good results. They have confessed to many issues," the Tehran-based Ham Mihan newspaper quoted the Tehran deputy prosecutor for security affairs, Hassan Haddad, as saying.
Iran has said it is holding Iranian-American Haleh Esfandiari and Kian Tajbakhsh on charges of harming national security, in cases that several officials have linked to US efforts to topple the Islamic Republic ruling system in Iran.
Washington and some Iranian media have said that a third dual national, California-based businessman Ali Shakeri, has also been arrested, although this has yet to be confirmed by the authorities.
A fourth US-Iranian, journalist Parnaz Azima, faces the same charges and has had her passport confiscated even though she remains at liberty.
Hadad did not specify which of the accused had confessed or what they had revealed. But his remarks are the first time an official has spoken of confessions in cases that have further intensified strains with Washington.
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