Iranian border police said on Saturday they had arrested an American woman on suspicion of spying, Iranian news agencies reported on Saturday, two days after state-run TV denied a similar story. "The female American spy was arrested at the Jolfa border," the semi-official Fars news agency quoted Ahmad Geravand, deputy commander of state border police, as telling a news conference.
Jolfa is on the border with Azerbaijan and also close to Armenian territory. Fars said she entered from Armenia. On Thursday, daily newspaper Iran said a 55-year-old US woman identified as Hall Talayan had been arrested trying to cross the border without a visa, a report which Iran's Arabic language television al-Alam said was false.
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