Two US hikers accused Iran on Sunday of using them as ‘hostages’ in its power struggle with the West and described hearing the anguished cries of fellow inmates being beaten in Tehran's Evin prison.

Iran's foreign ministry said on Thursday that ‘several world leaders’ had mediated the release of two US hikers, freshly freed by Teheran after more than two years in jail on charges of spying and ill

Two US hikers jailed for spying and illegal entry left Teheran for the Gulf sultanate of Oman on Wednesday on their way home to the United States after Iran released them on bail, the official IRNA ne

The lawyer for two Americans convicted of spying in Iran said on Sunday he would appeal their eight-year sentence, which shocked their families who had hoped to see them freed after more than two year

Iran has sentenced two American hikers to eight years in prison for illegally entering the country and spying for a US intelligence agency, state television said on Saturday.

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An Iranian scientist, who returned home last week charging he had been held by US agents for more than a year, has said that they had pressed him to agree to be exchanged in a "spy" swap for three US