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Families of three American hikers detained in Iran since July will be allowed to visit them, Iran's state television reported on Monday.Iran's Intelligence Minister Haidar Moslehi said last month Tehran had proof that the three Americans, detained on espionage charges, had links to intelligence services.Shane Bauer, 27, Sarah Shourd, 31, and Josh Fattal, 27, were detained after they entered Iran from northern Iraq, in a case that further complicated poor relations between Tehran and Washington.Iran's English-language Press TV said their families would be permitted to visit them. It gave no source and said no date for the visit had been set.In the United States, the families said they had not received official confirmation of the news."But we would obviously be delighted if it is true and are ready to travel as soon as our visas are issued. We are extremely concerned for the physical and emotional welfare of Shane, Sarah and Josh and cannot wait to see them after nine long months," they said in a statement.In a brief meeting with Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki last week, U.S. Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Alejandro Wolff handed over letters from the families of the detained Americans.Their families have said they were hiking and accidentally strayed across the border from Iraq. The White House has called for their immediate release.Under Iran's Islamic law, espionage can be punishable by death.The United States has no diplomatic relations with Iran and is in a deadlock with the Islamic state over its disputed nuclear programme.Washington is lobbying U.N. Security Council members to back a fourth round of sanctions on Tehran, to press it into curbing sensitive atomic work the West suspects is aimed at making bombs. Iran denies the charge.The United States and Israel, Iran's arch-foes, have not ruled out military action if diplomacy fails to resolve the row.
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