ISNA The American citizen detained in Mashhad is not facing espionage or security accusations, Iranian deputy Foreign Minister for Iranian Expatriates and Parliamentary Affairs, Hossein Panahi-Azar said. Earlier, news of detention of an American citizen in Mashhad was broadcasted, which was followed by an Iranian Foreign Ministrys announcement,...

IRNA - Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi said on Monday that the Chinese-American citizen arrested in Iran had been prosecuted for certain accusations against him. He added, The US threatens Iran, but threatening is not an appropriate language. The US, surely, cant and shouldnt speak like that. The spokesman was referring to cerain recent ...

Press TV- An individual spying for the United States has been arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison in Iran, the Iranian Judiciary has announced. A spokesman for the Judiciary, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, said on Sunday that a US infiltration agent, who held both a US nationality and that of another country, had been identified and arrested ...

MNA Deputy FM Ravanchi has said Irans Foreign Ministry is adopting a mechanism to act reciprocally regarding the visa issuance for US nationals. During the session we discussed Irans missile tests and all members of the commission reaffirmed that Iran would not wait for any countrys permission in defense issues, Majid Takht-Ravanchi, Deputy Foreign ...

FNA- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned that his country has stopped granting entry visas to the Americans in retaliation for the Donald Trump Administration's travel ban against citizens of seven Muslim countries, including Iran. "We will not issue visa for the Americans, but there will be exceptions whose cases will be referred ...