On Monday, Iran’s supreme court vacated the death sentence for a former U.S. Marine held since August on suspicions of spying, Iranian state media reported.
In December, Iranian authorities accused Amir Hekmati, 28, a former U.S. Marine linguist from Michigan, of having come to Iran to spy for the CIA. But and as well as the U.S. government say the charges are bogus; his family contends that Hekmati went to Iran in August with the permission of the
