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Iran confirmed Wednesday (9) the arrest of a US military reserve last year, although he denied press information according to which man would have been mistreated.
"An American citizen, Michael White, was arrested recently in Mashhad and the US government was informed through the Tehran Interests Section," Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said. via the Telegram social network.
White, 46, of Imperial Beach, Calif., Was arrested in June while visiting his Iranian girlfriend in the country's second largest city, Mashhad, said his mother at New York Times this week.
The State Department stated that it was "aware of information" about the arrest, but did not specify privacy issues.
Ghasemi badures that the American press reports that White's arrest conditions are bad, that they are "false".
"The case of this person is managed by the competent authorities and, at the end of this process, they will provide the necessary information," explained Ghasemi.
With the arrest of White, at least four Americans are already detained in Iran, including two of Iranian origin.
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