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          BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iran has confirmed
          it has three Americans in custody after
          they crossed into Iranian territory from
          northern Iraq's Kurdish region last month,
          the Iraqi Foreign Minister said on Sunday.
          Hoshiyar Zebari met Iran's ambassador to
          Iraq, Hassan Kazemi-Qomi, and asked for
          information about the U.S. citizens, Whom
          Kurdish security officials say are tourists
          FulISize Who strayed unwittingly into Iranian
          territory.
          “Yes, that's correct,” Zebari said when
          asked whether he had met Iranian
          officials and if they had confirmed the
          U.S. citizens were in Iranian custody.
          “We met the Iranian ambassador here and we raised the issue. These
          people were in Iraq and crossed the border, so we wanted information
          and they did not deny it,” he said, adding that Qomi had confirmed they
          were being questioned.
          Last week an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said he could not
          confirm whether the Americans had been detained by Iran.
          The tourists had been hiking at the Ahmed Awa tourist resort, renowned
          for its waterfalls, when they stumbled into Iran. There is no clear border
          marker between Iran and Iraq in that area.
          Washington has asked the Swiss Embassy in Tehran, representing U.S.
          interests there, for assistance.
          Iraq has strong ties to Iran and its arch-foe the United States, forcing
          Baghdad to handle the issue of the detentions delicately.
          Iran's confirmation of the Americans' detention comes at a time of tense
          relations between the West and Tehran.
          An Iranian court on Saturday charged a French woman, two Iranians
          working for the British and French embassies in Tehran and dozens of
          others with spying and aiding a Western plot to overthrow the country's
          clerical rule.
          Iran accuses the West, particularly the United States and Britain, of
          fomenting trouble after a disputed presidential election in June. They
          deny the charge.
          (Reporting by Mohammed Abbas, Writing by Yara Bayoumy, Editing by
          Michael Roddy)
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