4th American-Iranian probed - Focus on Iran - MSNBC.com

4th American-Iranian probed - Focus on Iran - MSNBC.com: "TEHRAN, Iran - Iran confirmed Friday for the first time that it is holding an Iranian-American peace activist, the fourth dual citizen it has detained in recent months, according to a semiofficial news agency.

Ali Shakeri of Lake Forest, Calif., was being held on security-related charges and investigated by the security department of the Tehran prosecutor’s office, the Iranian Student News Agency reported. It provided no source for the information and calls to Iranian judicial officials were not immediately returned Friday, a weekend day in the Islamic country.

ISNA said in a four-sentence report on its Web site that Shakeri had been detained “some time ago.”

It was not immediately clear if he was being represented by a lawyer." Read complete post here.