Iran issues verdict for Washington Post reporter

Iran has issued the verdict of the Washington Post reporter, Jason Rezaian, who was detained in Iran last year over spying and propaganda charges, the Iranian Judiciary spokesman Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei said here on Sunday.

Rezaian has 20 days to appeal to the court against his verdict, Mohseni-Ejei said, but did not provide further details about his sentence.

Rezaian, 39-year-old Iranian-American, assumed his job as Washington Post correspondent in Tehran in 2012.

He was arrested on July 22, 2014 along with his wife, Yeganeh Salehi, a reporter for The National newspaper based in Abu Dhabi and freelance photographer. Enditem