http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/19/world/asia/siamak-namazi-iran-prison.html 2016-10-18 16:57:39 Tehran Sentences Iranian-American Businessman to 10 Years, Report Says Siamak Namazi, who has been held in Iran for a year, was given the prison term for collaborating with a foreign government, the Mizan news agency said. === TEHRAN — An Iranian-American businessman who has been held in Citing “an informed source,” the agency, which is owned by the Iranian judiciary, reported that four other defendants in the case had also been convicted and given similar sentences. One was Mr. Namazi’s 80 year-old father, Bagher. Two more were referred to only by initials, F.H.A. and A.A. The fourth was a Lebanese man, Nizar Zakka, who holds a “green card” granting him residence in the United States. It was not clear how the collaboration charges could have applied to him, since he is not an Iranian citizen. The Mizan news agency The agency said on Tuesday that it would provide more information on the sentences “at a later stage.” Iranian intelligence agents related to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps have arrested several people with dual Iranian and foreign nationality over the past two years, after the government of President Hassan Rouhani struck a deal with world powers, including the United States, to limit Iran’s Analysts view the arrests as attempts by hard-liners to gain leverage in international negotiations, and as a way of blocking the normalization of diplomatic ties between Iran and the United States, which some Iranian officials still refer to as the Great Satan.