This story originally appeared at The Foreign Desk by Lisa Daftari:

Jason Rezaian has “confessed” to leading a network of spies in Iran, working directly with the U.S. to “topple the Iranian regime,” according to Fars News, Iran’s state-run media outlet.

In a detailed article, the Revolutionary Guard-backed media outlet accused Rezaian of being the stealthy ringleader of a network of informants working closely with the Obama administration in gathering sensitive information from the ground in Iran.

Read the full story at The Foreign Desk by Lisa Daftari.