US | Iran Iran OKs Visit by Moms of Detained US Hikers But Tehran has made promises in the past By Nick McMaster Posted May 10, 2010 3:55 PM CDT Copied In a Sept. 30, 2009 file photo, Nora Shourd, mother of Sarah Shourd, a hiker jailed in Iran, stands at a rally at University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File) Iran will allow the mothers of the three American hikers who have been in custody for nearly a year to visit their children. Tehran has ordered its UN mission to issue visas for the three moms, the AP reports, but no date has been has been set. Iran has told the families before that they would receive visas and then failed to deliver. "We're very cautious about our optimism," one of the mothers tells the AP. "Emotionally I know I have to be really careful." The three hikers were apprehended in July in the mountains between Iran and Kurdistan, in northern Iraq, and accused of espionage. Read These Next SCOTUS sounds skeptical about law banning gay conversion therapy. Felix Baumgartner's death attributed to his own error. Robin Williams' daughter: AI clips of him are 'disturbing' Trump, Johnson aren't happy with pick for Super Bowl headliner. Report an error