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Iranian actress avoids lashing sentence imposed by Islamic republic
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Amnesty International says an Iranian appeals court has overturned the lashing sentence against an actress who appeared in a film critical of the Islamic republic’s hard-line policies.
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Hundreds rally in support of Iranian opposition (AP)
AP – Hundreds of people rallied outside the White House on Saturday, calling on President Barack Obama to remove an Iranian opposition group once allied with Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime from the U.S. list of terrorist organizations.
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Serious but amateurish: US describes Iranian plot (AP)
AP – The alleged Iranian plot against the Saudi ambassador to Washington was “amateur hour,” an unusually clumsy operation for Iran’s elite foreign action unit, the Quds Force, U.S. officials said Wednesday as further stranger-than-fiction details emerged of the assassination gone wrong.
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Man at center of Iranian plot was used car salesman: report
Before dabbling in assassination for hire, the man charged with plotting to kill a top Saudi diplomat peddled used cars and kabab, a Texas TV station reported.
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Iranian plot to kill Saudi ambassador foiled: AG Eric Holder
Federal authorities foiled a plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States, arresting one of the two suspected schemers, authorities said Tuesday.
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2 hikers released from Iranian prison return to US (AP)
AP – Two Americans held for more than two years in an Iranian prison on accusations of spying returned to the U.S. on Sunday, ending a diplomatic ordeal that began with what they called a wrong turn into the wrong country.
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2 Americans released from Iranian prison head home (AP)
AP – Two Americans freed from an Iranian prison were believed to be on a flight heading to the United States on Sunday from Oman, the Gulf state that helped mediate their release after more than two years in custody on accusations of spying.
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