"Iran on Tuesday put on trial an American man of Iranian descent accused of spying for the US Central Intelligence Agency, Fars news agency reported.
"The first hearing in the trial of Amir Mirzai Hekmati, recently arrested for spying for the United States, started Tuesday" in a closed Tehran court, Fars reported.
Hekmati, a 28-year-old former US Marine born in the United States to an Iranian immigrant family, was shown on Iranian state television mid-December saying in fluent Farsi and English that he was a CIA operative sent to infiltrate the Iranian intelligence ministry.
The US government says Hekmati has been falsely accused and has demanded his immediate release."
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