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epa04330603 A picture made available on 25 July 2014 shows the Washington Post Iranian-American journalist Jason Rezaian (R) and his Iranian wife Yeganeh Salehi, who works for the UAE newspaper National, during a foreign ministry spokeswoman weekly press conference in Tehran, Iran, 10 September 2013. The Iranian judiciary has confirmed the arrest of two Iranian journalists, a photographer and her husband in Tehran. ‘We are at the beginning of the investigation and therefore cannot announce any further details,’ Tehran’s judiciary chief Gholam Hussein Ismaeili told Mehr news agency on 25 July. Two of the arrested persons is the Iranian-American Jason Rezaian and his Iranian wife Yeganeh Salehi. EPA/STRINGER