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Alleged
US spy in Iran returns to Armenia: report
Sunday January 09, 2011 10:58:26 PM,
DPA
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Iran
police confirm arrest of US woman spy suspect
An American
woman detained in Iran this week on suspicion of spying was caught
filming in a border town, police told the Fars news agency
Saturday.
Deputy border police chief Ahmad Geravand said 34-year-
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Tehran: Confusing and
contradictory reports on an American woman arrested by Iran on
charges of spying continued Sunday after an Iranian security
official announced that she had left the country, apparently
travelling to Armenia.
State media had reported Thursday that 55-year-old Hal T. had been
arrested last week at the Iranian-Armenian border crossing of
Nourdooz without a visa but with "espionage devices", including a
microphone in her teeth.
But Saturday, deputy border police chief Ahmad Geravand said the
woman was 34 years old and had been arrested Dec 5 in the
Iranian-Azerbaijani border town of Jolfa while filming with her
video camera.
According to Geravand, the woman was a CIA agent working under
cover and had already confessed to espionage operations.
Sunday, the unnamed security official from the north-western
Iranian province of Azerbaijan told the state television network
IRIB's website that the woman had never entered Iran but had been
waiting for a visa to enter Iran via Armenia and the Nourdooz
crossing.
While denying the espionage charges and video filming in Jolfa,
the official said that "after the relevant legal procedures," she
had left the Nourdooz Saturday, apparently back to Armenia.
The US State Department Saturday disputed the reported arrest of
the American woman.
"We have located the US citizen who appears to have been the
subject of the reports and confirmed that the individual is safe,"
State Department spokesman Mark Toner told Politico newspaper.
Armenia had earlier denied such a person had ever entered Armenia
and the US had at first said it had no record of the woman on the
State Department database.
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