WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (AP) — 01
mote American has been arreated and
being held in Iran In adAitIOr4 o 42 r '
• lomatic hostages and a £re4anceWd
the State Department sold today. .
George Havens, a spoke unafl for
Department 's Iran WoittiOg Group, a
that the man Multi Soan , 44 years
an Iranian by -
UnIted States
• Iran last moat)
pecitie4 cluirges.. ::‘
J'Ha 1 elng heId. ,LMr. Ravens
“The Swiss have been trying to get e
to him but so far have been unable to
:so. We know pt no formal chaVge8. !
Tinited States has bean
the Swiss Embassy nfl
Lage reiatedI 5suee .
• Jack Anderson. the columnist. ti
lag the rreat on ABC-TV'S “Good.
tag, America ” program In4AY iaid that
Mr 5obhani was so Wad on Se 4 . 6 a i he
tried to leave Teheran s lth hla.wlfa and
daughter. Mr. Anderson also said that the
Ira n Ian, who ho said had been operating a
comp ster company In :Iren, lia4 beep
cltarge4 with being an A i r Cafl4Pg.:
U UgIofl Said to %a fl asue
However, Mr. Sobhanl's brother M r-
na. a civil enflineer In santa BerbarU,
Calif. said In a teleph000 Interview that
hebe leVed that Muin w4a picitad up ha ..
cause he Is an American nd btt e'ha
a inemberof the Beitni faith.”:.
“They are executing end persocUth
the llahaL conthll4oUSlY,” ha said.
- . “They have told his wliQ that sh ej
. bould not have ,parried a- non-Moslem
‘and her marriage bould be annulled and
that the child the?have Is iIiegItimatu.”
said. Mr. SOh )!tPII 'S wile Is t Moslem.
. Mr. Sobbaul has two sisters and twO
-brothers living In SQuthern Catitornia ,
Morris Sobhani aat4 he- learned of l i la
btother '8 plight two weeks after his ar.
7est nd that l e had sent telegrams to the
State'DCPartm 1t and United Nations
Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, ask-
ing them to Intercede.
Mr. Afldn f 0fl also said that an uniden-
tt(k:l A çteriC&fl hu lne5srnCfl had been
4rre lsd on charges of being an Amen-
can jiQwever , Mr. Ravens said he
could not cnnIin i that report.
In addit Ion to the 52 hostages, the Ira-;
elena are holding Cynthia Dwyer, 49, è
freelanca writer I rma the UuhlelQ, ‘LY.,
area. SIte was setsed on May 4 by revolu-
tionary guards who wit her from her
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