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Iran sentences ex-Marine to death in CIA case (AP)

In this Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011 video frame grab image made from the Iranian broadcaster IRIB TV, U.S. citizen Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, accused by Iran of spying for the CIA, sits in Tehran's revolutionary court, in Iran. An Iranian court has convicted Hekmati and sentenced him to death, state radio reported Monday, Jan. 9, 2012. Iran charges that Hekmati received special training and served at U.S. military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan before heading to Iran for his alleged intelligence mission. (AP Photo/IRIB, File)  NO ACCESS IRAN;  BBC PERSIAN TV OUT; VOA PERSIAN TV OUTAP - A former U.S. Marine interpreter arrested while on a trip to visit his Iranian grandmothers has been sentenced to death as a CIA spy, state radio reported Monday, in a case likely to become a new flashpoint in the escalating tensions between Tehran's defiance over its nuclear program and Washington's efforts to impose more crippling sanctions.

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