The pissing match between Iran and the US escalates this morning, according to CNN.
Iran will charge three American hikers who strayed into the country with espionage, a Tehran prosecutor said Monday.
The announcement comes only days after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met privately with the families Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal, who were detained along the Iran-Iraq border at the end of July.
Tehran's prosecutor for the Public and Revolution Court, Dr. Abbas Ja'afari Dolatabadi, announced the charges in an interview with the official Iranian news agency IRNA.
Friends and relatives say the men accidentally wandered into Iran while hiking in Turkey in late July.
It is a shame when ordinary people suffer because of political bullshit between two governments. I might have thought twice about picking this area for a hiking expedition, but it seems highly unlikely that these guys were spies.