‘Washington Post’ correspondent Jason Rezaian and his wife in Tehran in 2013.(Photo: AFP/Getty Images)
Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian went on trial in Iran on Tuesday, the nation's state media said.
Tehran has not elaborated on the charges, but the
Post has previously said Rezaian, 39, was charged with espionage and for conducting unspecified activity against the Islamic Republic.
The trial is closed to the public, including Rezaian's family.
The trial is taking place in a Revolutionary Court, the IRNA news agency said.
The California native, who holds an Iranian passport as well as an American one, was detained on July 22.
His Iranian wife and two photojournalists were also arrested, but later released.
The
Post has criticized the case.
"It is absurd and despicable to assert, as Iran's judiciary is now claiming, that Jason's work first as a freelance reporter and then as the
Post's Tehran correspondent amounted to espionage," Martin Baron, the
Post's executive editor, said last month.
President Obama said earlier this month that his administration has been working to secure Rezaian's release.
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