Tuesday is visitors day for Jason Rezaian, the day that Iranian authorities permit the imprisoned Washington Post journalist to see his mother and his wife. As they have every Tuesday for the past few weeks, Mary Rezaian and Yeganeh Salehi arrived at Tehrans Evin Prison in the morning and walked through a labyrinth of halls to a waiting car that ...

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The trial of a Washington Post journalist detained in Iran for almost 10 months on charges that include "espionage" has opened in the capital Tehran behind closed doors. Jason Rezaian, a dual US-Iranian citizen, has been accused of passing information to "hostile governments". The Washington Post's editor described the trial as "shameful" and ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- A Washington Post journalist detained in Iran for over eight months is accused of "espionage" and "acting against national security," the semiofficial Fars news agency reported Sunday. The report did not elaborate on the source of the information, but the agency is regarded as close to Iran's hard-liners. Iranian officials have ...

[caption id="attachment_108419" align="alignright" width="217"] A Nov. 6, 2013, photo shows Jason Rezaian, a Washington Post reporter, at the newspaper in Washington. (Zoeann Murphy/AP)[/caption] DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- After more than seven months behind bars in an Iranian prison, detained Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian has ...

[caption id="attachment_120016" align="alignright" width="203"] The Washington Posts Iranian-American journalist Jason Rezaian (R) and his Iranian wife Yeganeh Salehi, who works for the UAE newspaper National, during a press conference in Tehran on September 10, 2013.[/caption] An arch-conservative member of the Iranian parliament and outspoken critic ...

[caption id="attachment_108419" align="alignright" width="142"] A Nov. 6, 2013, photo shows Jason Rezaian, a Washington Post reporter, at the newspaper in Washington. (Zoeann Murphy/AP)[/caption] Jason Rezaian, the Washington PostsIrancorrespondent, who was imprisoned and placed in solitary confinement six months ago for unspecified reasons, has been ...

[caption id="attachment_120016" align="alignright" width="163"] The Washington Posts Iranian-American journalist Jason Rezaian (R) and his Iranian wife Yeganeh Salehi, who works for the UAE newspaper National, during a press conference in Tehran on September 10, 2013.[/caption] Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post correspondent in Iran, has been officially ...

[caption id="attachment_108831" align="alignright" width="177"] The Washington Post's Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian[/caption] Jason Rezaian, Washington Post's Tehran bureau chief, to be kept in jail for another 60 days, Tehran judge rules. Iran has extended the detenetion ofWashington Post's bureau chief in Tehran for up to 60 days, without ...

[caption id="attachment_108419" align="alignright" width="146"] A Nov. 6, 2013, photo shows Jason Rezaian, a Washington Post reporter, at the newspaper in Washington. (Zoeann Murphy/AP)[/caption] DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- The family of an Iranian-American correspondent for the Washington Post who has been jailed in Iran since July is urging ...

[caption id="attachment_112919" align="alignright" width="155"] In this photo taken on April 11, 2013, Jason Rezaian, right, an Iranian-American correspondent for the Washington Post, and his wife Yeganeh Salehi, an Iranian correspondent for the Abu Dhabi-based daily newspaper The National, smile as they attend a presidential campaign of President ...

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[caption id="attachment_120016" align="alignright" width="182"] The Washington Posts Iranian-American journalist Jason Rezaian (R) and his Iranian wife Yeganeh Salehi, who works for the UAE newspaper National, during a press conference in Tehran on September 10, 2013.[/caption] An Iranian photojournalist detained in Tehran nearly two months ago along ...

NEW YORK The jailing of a Washington Post reporter without public charges in Iran is not evidence of a power struggle between moderate and conservative political forces, Irans president said Tuesday. President Hassan Rouhani, a relative moderate, expressed optimism that the generally conservative Iranian judiciary would comport itself in a fair manner ...

[caption id="attachment_108419" align="alignright" width="251"] A Nov. 6, 2013, photo shows Jason Rezaian, a Washington Post reporter, at the newspaper in Washington. === (Zoeann Murphy/AP)[/caption] Foreign minister says Tehran treating Jason Rezaian, who holds dual US and Iranian citizenship, solely as citizen of Islamic republic Iran's foreign ...

[caption id="attachment_112919" align="alignright" width="237"] In this photo taken on April 11, 2013, Jason Rezaian, right, an Iranian-American correspondent for the Washington Post, and his wife Yeganeh Salehi, an Iranian correspondent for the Abu Dhabi-based daily newspaper The National, smile as they attend a presidential campaign of President ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- The editor of a newspaper in the United Arab Emirates expressed hope Thursday that its correspondent in Iran detained last month on unspecified charges will soon be released. Yeganeh Salehi was working as a foreign correspondent for the Abu Dhabi-based daily The National when she was detained on July 22 alongside ...

[caption id="attachment_108419" align="alignright" width="221"] A Nov. 6, 2013, photo shows Jason Rezaian, a Washington Post reporter, at the newspaper in Washington(Zoeann Murphy/AP)[/caption] Jason Rezaians Arrest in Iran Is a Ploy to Weaken Rouhani WASHINGTON Jason Rezaian, The Washington Posts correspondent in Iran, was arrested in Tehran on ...