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Iran insists charges against Reiss ...

It comes as no surprise that Iran thinks France’s official perspective regarding Clotilde Reiss is “biased and irrational.” France managed to win her temporary release, at the hefty bail fee of $300,000, but calling for Tehran to drop the charges against Reiss altogether has met with indignation. Iran insists that Ms. Reiss is not a political …

Iran: French ‘spy’ out on bail

Clotilde ReissClotilde Reiss, a French teacher accused of spying in the aftermath of the Iranian elections, was released on bail yesterday after spending a month and a half in Tehran’s now infamous Evin prison. Just shy of her 24th birthday...

U.S. hikers accused of working for ...

hikers = spies?According to a Tehran television news program, local Iranian police are now accusing the three Americans arrested in Iran on Friday of being U.S. spies in the employ of the CIA. Shocked? Of course not. The accusation is...

Iran to accuse 3 U.S. hikers of spy...

Iraqi border guardThree American hikers who accidentally crossed into Iran from Kurdish Iraq while on a hiking trip in the resort town of Ahmed Awaa were surrounded and arrested by Iranian troops on Friday. There is no indication that the three were working as spies, but given Iran’s...

Iran: nuclear weapons in 6 months?!

Time is running outAs spy agencies all over the West hazard guesses as to when Iran will officially join the ranks of nuclear world powers, a report recently issued by Stern, a weekly Hamburg publication, has sped up Iran’s trajectory substantially. Stern gives Iran 6 months, upon the...

Spy charges against French woman ba...

Clotilde ReissThe first time we got wind of the French woman who was recently arrested in Iran for spying, not too many details of her circumstances had yet been shared with the public – not even her name. Slowly, more information is...

Iran arrests French woman for ‘sp...

Tehran AirportFrance’s foreign ministry has appealed to the European Union for support in pressuring Iran to release yet another foreigner accused by the Iranians of spying. The French woman, an academic by profession, had been in Iran for...

Berlin: Spy convicted of helping Ir...

sinbad1In October 2008, an Iranian-Canadian businessman, now 61, who spied on behalf of Germany (codename Sinbad) was arrested on charges of supporting Tehran’s missile program. He has just been convicted and...

Saberi leaves Iran in aftermath of ...

Roxana Saberi in AustriaReleased from prison and finally free to leave Iran, Roxana Saberi is making her way back home to the US with a recuperative stop in laid back Vienna. She’s not yet ready to speak at length with the press about...

Iran: Alleged Spy Finally Released

Roxana SaberiIn a move that has given Obama, Clinton and the Saberi family immense cause for relief, Iran reduced and suspended...

Vigil Held in N. Dakota for Alleged...

Reza Saberi with a photo of his daughter RoxanaRoxana Saberi, the American-Iranian reporter recently convicted of espionage in Iran after a 1-day trial that was held behind closed doors, has been on a hunger strike since Tuesday, April 21. On Saturday, hundreds gathered on the...

U.S. Reporter convicted of spying i...

Roxana Saberi, the Iranian-American journalist from North Dakota who was recently sentenced to 8 years in prison in Tehran for espionage, went on a hunger strike on Tuesday.

Her father Reza appeared before an Iranian court yesterday, where he was questioned about Roxana’s strike, but what he shared comes as no surprise. She is refusing to …

8 Years in Iranian Prison for Alleg...

American-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi was convicted of espionage against Iran in a sentence announced by Tehran on Saturday. The verdict carries with it an eight-year prison term and was reached after a closed-door trial in Iran that lasted exactly one day.

The U.S. isn’t keeping quiet, but how Iran will respond to federal pressure is yet …

U.S.-Iranian Reporter Held in Iran ...

U.S.-born journalist Roxana Saberi, who is a dual American-Iranian citizen, was detained in a prison in Tehran in late January. Now, over two months later, she has been officially charged with espionage. Deputy Prosecutor Hassan Haddad says Saberi was “carrying out spying activities under the guise of being a reporter.” She has been accused of gathering …

New Dan Gordon Thriller Just Releas...

The namesake of this spy club is up to his eyes in new espionage adventures, and you can read all about them in the just-released third installment of the Dan Gordon Intelligence Thriller series – The Chameleon Conspiracy.

Gordon’s still working for the U.S. Department of Justice, but he’s on loan to the CIA to …