(ROUGH CUT ONLY - NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> Press TV on Wednesday said two Americans arrested two years ago while hiking in Iran will not be released imminently.<br/> Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal were sentenced in Iran last month to eight years in prison.<br/> The pair were arrested in July 2009 near Iran's border with Iraq, where they say they were hiking in the mountains as tourists, along with a third hiker, Sarah Shourd.<br/> The announcement runs contrary to statements Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made days earlier, when he said that they would be freed "in a couple of days" in what he called a humanitarian gesture.
