US calls for exchange of prisoner in Iran
The United States asked Iran to exchange Iranian-American Amir Hekmati who is serving a 10-year prison term in Iran on espionage charges, his attorney told Iranian Tasnim news agency on Tuesday.
The United States has submitted the request via its Interest Section in Iran's capital of Tehran, the attorney, Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaee, was quoted as saying.
The request has been submitted to Iran's Judiciary, but Tehran has not responded to it so far, the report said.
Asked about any specific individual or individuals Washington may have considered as a part of the proposed prisoner exchange, the attorney declined to specify any name, saying that it would be made public at the Iranian Judiciary's discretion.
On Dec. 17, 2011, the Iranian Intelligence Ministry said it had arrested Hekmati as a U.S. spy in the country, adding that the spy is an analyst of U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who was tasked with infiltrating Iran's intelligence apparatus.
Afterwards, a U.S. government official denied the arrested U.S. citizen was a spy.
In January 2012, an Iranian court sentenced Hekmati to death over the charges of "cooperating with the hostile government of the United States, the membership in the CIA and an attempt to accuse Iran of terrorism."
In April this year, media reported that Iran's Supreme Court had overturned the death penalty of Hekmati to a 10-year imprisonment.
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