American-born, Iranian journalist held as ‘material witness,’ court documents show

Viktorcvetkovic/iStock(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. government on Friday acknowledged for the first time that it secretly arrested an Iranian journalist earlier this week, demanding she testify to a federal grand jury as part of a federal probe that still remains a mystery. The acknowledgement came in a federal judge’s order stating that American-born Melanie Franklin, also …

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