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July 26, 2007
No. 2266

Iran Intelligence Minister: More Arrested In U.S. Academics Affair

Iranian Intelligence Minister Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ezhei has said that Iranian security forces have arrested more individuals of Iranian origin connected to the two Iranian-American academics Drs. Haleh Esfandiari and Kian Tajbakhsh.

He did not say how many were arrested or whether they had dual citizenship.

Source: Tehran Times, Iran, July 26, 2007


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