Washington Post: Iran Charging Jailed Reporter With Espionage (WRAP)

The Washington Post newspaper says its bureau chief in Tehran Jason Rezaian, who's been imprisoned in Iran for nine months, has been charged with four serious crimes including espionage.

According to his Iranian lawyer, one of the counts accuses him of having broken the law by writing a letter to President Obama.

As Lorna Shaddick reports from Washington, the White House has described the charges as 'absurd'.

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