Sarah Shourd, Josh Fattal, and Shane Bauer are arrested along the Iran-Iraq border. Iran accuses them of entering Iranian territory and of being spies. The three say that they were merely on a recreational hike in Iraqi Kurdistan and that if they really did enter Iranian territory, they did so unintentionally. The border there can be difficult to discern.
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A picture obtained from Iran's state-run English-language Press TV shows detained US hikers (l.-r.) Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal waiting to meet their mothers for the first time since their arrest, in the Iranian capital Tehran on May 20, 2010.