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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)

Demonstrators chant during a march in Washington after rallying in front of the White House Saturday, Oct. 22,  2011. Hundreds of people rallied, demanding that an Iranian opposition group, Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), once allied with Iraq's Saddam Hussein, be removed from a U.S. terror list.  (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)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)

FILE - This May 16, 2003 file photo photo shows Adel al-Jubeir, then foreign affairs adviser to the Saudi Arabian crown prince, during a news conference at the Saudi Arabian embassy in Washington. The Obama administration on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011 accused agents of the Iranian government of being involved in a plan to assassinate al-Jubeir, the Saudi ambassador to the United States. (AP Photos/Susan Walsh, File)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)

Freed Americans Shane Bauer, left, Josh Fattal, center, and Sarah Shourd, right, Bauer's fiance, wave from the door to an airplane before leaving for the United States at the airport in Muscat, Oman, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011. Two Americans freed from an Iranian prison told reporters Saturday they were 'eager to go home' just before boarding their flight to the U.S. from Oman, the Gulf state that helped mediate their release after more than two years in custody on accusations of spying. Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer were scheduled to arrive home on Sunday, according to Samantha Topping, a spokeswoman for their families. The two were released from Tehran's Evin prison under a $1 million bail deal and arrived in Oman on Wednesday in the first leg of their journey home. There they were reunited with joyful relatives. (AP Photo/Sultan al-Hasani)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)

Freed Americans Shane Bauer, left, Josh Fattal, center, and Sarah Shourd, right, Bauer's fiance, wave from the door to an airplane before leaving for the United States at the airport in Muscat, Oman, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011. Two Americans freed from an Iranian prison told reporters Saturday they were 'eager to go home' just before boarding their flight to the U.S. from Oman, the Gulf state that helped mediate their release after more than two years in custody on accusations of spying. Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer were scheduled to arrive home on Sunday, according to Samantha Topping, a spokeswoman for their families. The two were released from Tehran's Evin prison under a $1 million bail deal and arrived in Oman on Wednesday in the first leg of their journey home. There they were reunited with joyful relatives. (AP Photo/Sultan al-Hasani)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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