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IRAN: AMERICAN EX-MARINE AMIR MIRZA HEKMATI SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SPYING
January 9, 2012: An American ex-Marine, who also holds Iranian citizenship, has been sentenced to death by Iran's Revolutionary Court for spying for the CIA, the semi-official Fars news agency has reported.
Amir Mirza Hekmati, 28, was "sentenced to death for cooperating with a hostile nation [the US], membership of the CIA and trying to implicate Iran in terrorism," Agence France Presse reported the verdict as saying, citing Fars.
"The court found him Corrupt on Earth and Mohareb [waging war on God]."
Hekmati was arrested in December and Iran's Intelligence Ministry accused him of receiving training at U.S. bases in Afghanistan and Iraq, Reuters reported.
Iranian officials said his cover was blown by agents for Iran who spotted him at the US-run Bagram military air base in neighboring Afghanistan.
The U.S. government said in December, when Hekmati's trial began, that he had been falsely accused and demanded his immediate release, AFP reported at the time. (Sources: GlobalPost, 09/01/2012)
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