Two American immigrants accused of spying and illegally in Iran have been imprisoned for eight years by a court in Tehran, reports say.
Website of Iranian state television said Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal each received three years of illegal entry into Iran, and five years for spying.
Both men deny the charges, saying that without wanting to cross the country a boost in July 2009.
Fellow hiker Sarah Shourd issued is $ 500,000 (£ 314,386) bail last year.
She was released on humanitarian grounds, in September 2010, medical care and traveled to the United States. It is to stand trial, said in May, suffering from post-traumatic stress and find a change "very traumatic."
U.S. says it is trying to confirm reports of the sentences with the Swiss to Protect, which handles U.S. interests diplomatic ties with Tehran because Washington has no diplomatic relations with Iran.
"We have repeatedly called for the release of Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, who is now detained in Evin prison in Iran, two years," U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said in a statement.
"Shane and Josh has been jailed for too long, and it is time to link them to their families."
Not a light sentence "
The trial began in February 2011 and Mr. Bauer, 28, and Mr. Fattal, 29, pleaded not guilty. Ms. Shourd - the bride of Mr. Bauer - pleaded not guilty in absentia. The trial ended on July 31 on the second anniversary of their arrest.
"In connection with illegal entry into Iranian territory, each received three years in prison in connection with the burden of cooperation with U.S. intelligence agencies, each had five years in prison," the site, citing a judicial source said.
According to the report, "if Sarah Shourd, which is released on bail, is still open," the AFP news agency says.
The men are said to have 20 days to appeal against sentence.
Attorney, Masoud Shafii, said he had not received information about the conviction. "I do not know if this news is true or not, but this is not a light sentence," he said, Reuters news agency.
Mr. Bauer, an independent journalist and is fluent in Arabic, in 2008 moved to Damascus, the Syrian capital, where he lived with Ms. Shourd, 32, a teacher, writer and activist for women's rights. The two met in organizing demonstrations against the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Mr. Fattal, an environmentalist and teacher, he traveled to Damascus in 2009 to meet friends.
Trio - all graduated from the University of California, Berkeley - had gone to Iraqi Kurdistan is a week of vacation. They had visited the tourist village of Ahmed Awa, and brought with it a trail of local residents had told Mrs. Shourd said.
While walking they stopped and arrested by Iranian forces, who told them they were in Iranian territory. Friends have always said that if Iran does not get lost, they did so accidentally.
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