Colleague, family: Iranian-American refusal spy
American Amir Mirzaei Hekmati has been sentenced to death in lieu of surveillance, according to Irans semi-official Fars News Agency.STORY HIGHLIGHTSIranian media inform Amir Hekmati is sentenced to deathHis private and a earlier colleague deny he would own been involved within espionageHekmati was arrested within impressive while visiting relatives within Iran An Iranian-American ex-Marine convicted of undercover work on his ancestral homeland and facing a death sentence wouldnt own been involved within intelligence, a onetime colleague has held.Iranian state television aired I beg your pardon? it called a confession by 28-year-old Amir Hekmati preceding month. His ancestors held he was arrested appearing in impressive while visiting his grandmother and other relatives appearing in Iran and so as to his statement had to contain been coerced.inwards December, Sherri Condon, a software engineer who worked with Hekmati inwards 2008 and 2009 on an effort to develop a two-way, hand-held electronic translator in support of U.S.