SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq — Iran state TV confirmed Saturday that it has detained three Americans who crossed the border from Iraq, saying they failed to heed warnings from Iranian guards.
Kurdish officials from northern Iraq said the three — two men and a woman — were tourists who had mistakenly crossed into Iran Friday while hiking in a mountainous area near the resort town of Ahmed Awaa.
Iran’s state owned Arabic-language al-Alam TV station cited a “well-informed source” in the Interior Ministry that the three Americans were detained Friday after crossing into Iran’s Kurdistan province.
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