[caption id="attachment_92270" align="alignright" width="195"] Iranian-American Amir Mirza Hekmati, who has been sentenced to death by Iran's Revolutionary Court on the charge of spying for the CIA, stands with Iraqi soldiers in this undated still image taken from video in an undisclosed location made available to Reuters TV on January 9, 2012.[/caption] DETROIT ...

DETROIT (AP) -- An ex-Marine incarcerated in Iran for nearly two years says in the first letters written to family in Michigan that he is praying for his ailing father and that his grieving mother should not come visit him. Amir Hekmati's sister Sarah Hekmati told The Associated Press Tuesday that receiving the letters has been "very emotional" for ...

A former Marine incarcerated inIranfor nearly two years on suspicionsthat he was an American spy has been granted monthly visitations by an uncle in Tehran since March and has been permitted to send letters to his family for the first time, according to his sister, who interpreted the eased conditions as possible signs that Iran eventually could release ...