Tehran seeks release of detained Iranian citizens in US
The report quotes Iran's deputy foreign minister Abbas Araghchi as saying he raised the issue Friday during a meeting with an American delegation in Vienna, on the sidelines of a meeting on 2015 nuclear deal.
The White House says President Donald Trump is prepared to act in an attempt to end Iran's practice of using detentions and hostage taking as state policy, but it provides no specifics about potential consequences.
Later on Saturday the spokesman for Iran's foreign ministry, Bahram Ghasemi, rejected the U.S. demand calling it "intervention" in Iranian internal affairs, the official IRNA news agency reported.