[IsraelTimes] Iranian officials confirm to NYT that the unnamed detainee is one of two Americans taken into custody after Israel began strikes in June
A 70-year-old Jewish New Yorker is reportedly among four US citizens who are being held in jug in Iran.
The four prisoners all traveled to Iran
 ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
to visit family, The New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
reported Saturday, citing rights groups. It added that families of three of the US citizens requested that their relatives remain anonymous over fears their prison conditions could be worsened.
The 70-year-old Jewish man and another American were arrested after Israel began its aerial campaign against Iran in June, the Human Rights Activists News Agency and Hengaw rights groups were quoted as saying.
The man, who owns a jewelry business, is being interrogated over a trip to Israel, the report said. It was unclear when the trip to Israel took place.
Earlier this week, the Kan public broadcaster reported that two American nationals were among at least 35 Jews who were detained in Iran following the war on suspicion of spying for Israel, five of whom were said to still be in prison.
The report said one of the American nationals, a Jew of Iranian ancestry from Los Angeles, was recently released on bail, while the other, an American who left Iran for New York 30 years ago, was still in prison. It could not immediately be confirmed if that was the same Jewish New Yorker that The Times reported on Saturday.
Israel launched a surprise attack on Iran’s nuclear program and missile production on June 13, saying the operation was necessary to prevent the Islamic Theocratic Republic from realizing its avowed goal to destroy the Jewish state. The war ended 12 days later with a US-brokered ceasefire.
The second American reported by The Times to have been arrested right after the Israeli strikes started was a woman from Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,. Her whereabouts are now reportedly unknown after she was evacuated from Evin prison, which was struck by Israel during the war.
Two senior Iranian officials speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
confirmed to the US daily that the New York man and the Californian woman were detained as part of a crackdown on alleged operatives for Israel and the United States.
Iranian authorities were also said to have detained an Iranian-American woman who was first arrested in December 2024 and has since been released from prison, but had her Iranian and US passports confiscated, preventing her from leaving the country. The woman was charged with espionage following the war in June, the report said, citing her US-based lawyer.
Additionally, Iran in October 2024 detained Iranian-American journalist Reza Valizadeh, a former employee of the US-government-funded Persian-language Radio Farda, and reportedly sentenced him to 10 years in prison for "collaborating with a hostile government." 
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