Tehran's chief justice Gholamhossein Esmaili on Friday confirmed the
arrest of
Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian and his wife, also a journalist, the official IRNA news agency reported. I think we will be able to provide more information after technical investigation and questioning," Esmaili said, without saying why the couple had been arrested. The
Washington Post said on Thursday Rezaian appeared to have been detained in
Iran with his wife Yeganeh Salehi and two freelance photojournalists. Rezaian, 38, has been the
Post correspondent in Tehran since 2012 and holds both American and Iranian citizenship, according to the newspaper.
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