{"id":392289,"date":"2019-01-10T06:22:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T05:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-iran-dismisses-as-lies-reports-about-us-citizen\/"},"modified":"2019-01-10T06:22:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T05:22:33","slug":"presstv-iran-dismisses-as-lies-reports-about-us-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-iran-dismisses-as-lies-reports-about-us-citizen\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Iran dismisses as &#8216;lies&#8217; reports about US citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Iran has dismissed as &#8220;lies&#8221; US media reports suggesting that an American citizen it recently arrested is being held in suboptimal conditions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An American citizen named Michael White was arrested in the city of Mashhad a while ago and the US Interests Section in Tehran was informed in the first days&#8221; since his arrest,\u00a0Iran&#8217;s Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi told reporters Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><em>The New York Times<\/em> reported Monday that White, a US Navy veteran, had been arrested in Iran on &#8220;unspecified charges.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In another report on Tuesday, CBS News claimed the 46-year-old had been in detention since last summer and &#8220;was suffering psychologically and was being held in a ward with dangerous criminals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Qassemi said,\u00a0&#8220;We strongly reject\u00a0such untrue and false reports.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The US State Department confirmed that it had been informed of White&#8217;s arrest but refused to provide more details.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are aware of reports of the detention of a US citizen&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/01\/09\/585348\/Iran-Qassemi-Michael-White-detention-Mashhad\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran has dismissed as &#8220;lies&#8221; US media reports suggesting that an American citizen it recently arrested is being held in suboptimal conditions. &#8220;An American citizen named Michael White was arrested in the city of Mashhad a while ago and the US Interests Section in Tehran was informed in the first days&#8221; since his arrest,\u00a0Iran&#8217;s Foreign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-392289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}