Iran kept up its criticism of the FBI's apparent arrest of an American anchorwoman from Iran's state-run English-language TV channel.
The hard-line Vatan-e Emrooz paper criticized the detention of Press TV's Marzieh Hashemi as "Saudi-style behavior with a critical journalist."
Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif told Press TV that "we have a right to continue to look after her interests" as Hashemi, born Melanie Franklin in New Orleans, also holds Iranian citizenship.
Federal law allows judges to order witnesses to be arrested and detained if the government can prove their testimony has extraordinary value for a criminal case and that they would be a flight risk and unlikely to respond to a subpoena.
The statute generally requires those witnesses to be promptly released once they are deposed.
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