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  • American national allegedly held on Iran-Armenia border never entered Armenia

    Official: American said to be held in Iran never entered Armenia
    By the CNN Wire Staff
    January 7, 2011 8:05 a.m. EST

    (CNN) -- An Armenian security agency cast more doubt Friday on media reports an American woman was arrested for spying after she entered Iran from Armenia.

    Commenting on the reports that a U.S. citizen named Hall Talayan crossed the border, Artsvin Bagramian, head of Armenia's National Security Service press center, said that a person with that name never entered Armenia and thus neither left the country.

    Citing Iranian authorities, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported Thursday that Iranian customs officials arrested the 55-year-old American woman on charges of illegal entry and espionage.

    They said Talayan entered Iran from Armenia without a visa and security forces discovered "'espionage devices,' such as a microphone implanted in her teeth," Fars reported.

    Citing an informed Iranian official, Fars said the woman asked authorities not to return her to Armenia because she feared for her life there.

    She was detained in Nordouz, a border town in northwestern Iran, Fars reported.

    Other media outlets also have reported the arrest.

    But Al-Alam TV, an official Iranian news outlet, cited an informed source in Tehran who said the woman is in Armenia and didn't enter Iran. The outlet reported that the woman was denied entry into the country because she did not have an entry visa.

    The U.S. State Department, noting the conflicting reports, is trying to find out what happened.

    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday the United States has asked Switzerland "to please obtain as much information as possible as soon as possible to report to us whatever facts they can determine."

    Iran and the United States do not have diplomatic relations, and Switzerland represents U.S. interests in Tehran.

    In July 2009, three Americans were detained in Iran for spying after they allegedly strayed across an unmarked border while hiking in Iraq's Kurdistan.

    One of them, Sarah Shourd, was released from an Iranian prison last September on humanitarian grounds. Fellow hikers Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer are still in prison.

    Two German journalists, identified only as a reporter and photojournalist, were arrested in Iran in October and charged with espionage after they interviewed the son and lawyer of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a woman who was convicted of adultery in 2006 and sentenced to death by stoning.

    CNN's Ivan Watson contributed to this report

    An Armenian security agency cast more doubt Friday on media reports an American woman was arrested for spying after she entered Iran from Armenia.

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    Re: American national allegedly held on Iran-Armenia border never entered Armenia

    Sounds like an Azerbaijani fabrication.

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      Re: American national allegedly held on Iran-Armenia border never entered Armenia

      why does it matter if she entered from Armenia or not? How does that hurt Armenia?
      Մեկ Ազգ, Մեկ Մշակույթ
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      "Western Assimilation is the greatest threat to the Armenian nation since the Armenian Genocide."

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        Re: American national allegedly held on Iran-Armenia border never entered Armenia

        Originally posted by Davo88 View Post
        Official: American said to be held in Iran never entered Armenia
        By the CNN Wire Staff
        January 7, 2011 8:05 a.m. EST

        They said Talayan entered Iran from Armenia without a visa and security forces discovered "'espionage devices,' such as a microphone implanted in her teeth," Fars reported.
        Cool story......and I take it this well trained CIA spy with the state of the art spying implanted thingy device enters the country illegally (cool move) and declares herself an American (or maybe she had her US passport with her just in case).

        And if true so what, Armenia has captured several Azeri spies coming across Iran’s border.

        ARMENIA DENIES IRAN SPY (FAIRY TALE) STORY

        YEREVAN, January 7, 2011 (AFP) - Armenia on Friday denied that a US woman reportedly detained in Iran for alleged spying after entering the country from Armenia had ever been to the former Soviet republic.

        The woman, identified as Hal Talayan, was initially reported by Iranian media to have been detained after entering Iran with espionage equipment hidden in her teeth.

        But later reports contradicted this, saying that she had not been allowed to cross the border between Armenia and Iran because she did not have a valid visa.

        Armenia's National Security Service, however, said this was also impossible.

        "A person with such a name did not enter and thus never left Armenia," said Artsvin Bagramian, head of the National Security Service press centre.

        There has so far been no confirmation of any version of the story, which was first reported on Wednesday by a little known Iranian conservative news website, Nasimonline.ir, without naming any sources.

        The United States said Thursday that it was trying to obtain details about the alleged espionage arrest.

        "There's lots of conflicting reports swirling about on this issue," Mark Toner, a US State Department spokesman, told reporters.
        B0zkurt Hunter

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          Re: American national allegedly held on Iran-Armenia border never entered Armenia

          US disputes reports of Iran arrest

          State department says an American woman who allegedly confessed to spying on Tehran is 'safe' and is not in Iran at all.

          Last Modified: 09 Jan 2011 10:43 GMT

          An American woman reported to have been arrested in Iran for espionage is "safe" and not in Iranian custody, the US state department has said, contradicting Iranian authorities who said she has been detained and has "confessed" to the allegation.

          Iranian media, citing police, had reported on Saturday that officials were holding a US woman, identified as 34-year-old Hal Tayalan, on suspicion of spying for the US.

          But Mark Toner, a state department spokesman, said on Saturday that the "individual is safe", adding that she is not in Iran at all.

          Another US official, who declined to be identified due to privacy concerns, said the woman is in Istanbul, Turkey, and that American consular officials have been in contact with her.

          There had been a string of conflicting reports about the case: early on Saturday, a senior Iranian police official reiterated that border guards had detained the woman

          Confession claims

          Brigadier General Ahmad Geravand, the deputy border police chief, told state radio that authorities arrested the woman on Wednesday while she was filming border crossings and guard posts in Jolfa.

          The town is located near the border with Azerbaijan's autonomous region of Naxcivan, close to Armenia.

          "During preliminary questioning she confessed to this issue," Garavand told Iranian media on Sunday when asked if the woman was involved in spying.

          She was arrested "while she was filming under cover as a tourist, and she was on a mission from the US spy agency," he said in an earlier statement on Saturday.

          He added that she was using "advanced filming equipment" to film the "border markets, Jolfa [police] station and the frontier", having been "tasked by Americans".

          Geravand also said the woman at one point claimed to be a Swiss citizen.

          Thr Iranian Fars news agency gave the woman's name as Hal Talayan, but the Mehr and ISNA agencies have named her Hal Fayalan, 34.

          Iran's Arabic-language al-Alam television station cited a security source as saying that an American woman had been refused entry at a border crossing with Armenia over a visa issue.

          Iran is holding two Americans in detention for spying allegations and illegally crossing into the country from northern Iraq.

          Shane Bower and Josh Fattal were arrested in July 2009 with Sarah Shourd, who was released last September.

          They deny that they were spying and the US has cast doubt that they crossed into Iran at all.

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