Detained Scholar Allowed to Leave Iran
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Washington scholar Haleh Esfandiari was allowed to leave Tehran early this morning, ending an eight-month saga of imprisonment and virtual house arrest that heightened tense relations between the United States and Iran.
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Militant Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir is escorted from prison after being re-arrested at the end of his 18-month sentence for minor immigration offenses in this file photo from April 30, 2004, in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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An Iranian-American academic detained in Iran will be freed soon on bail, the judge in charge of his case said on Tuesday.
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Yaser E. Hamdi, a U.S. citizen captured in Afghanistan, will be allowed to return to Saudi Arabia in the next few days.
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Washington scholar Haleh Esfandiari was released yesterday after more than 100 days in Iran's notorious Evin Prison, but Tehran did not indicate whether the 67-year-old grandmother still faces a trial on charges of "crimes against national security" or will be allowed to leave the country.
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Amid a swirl of reports on the supposed location of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, an Iraqi government official Thursday said the cleric was in Iran, having left for the neighboring nation a few days earlier.
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An Iranian official has confirmed his country will briefly suspend uranium enrichment and related activities during negotiations with European countries over Iran&#39;s nuclear program.
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Iran has released on bail a U.S.-Iranian peace activist, Ali Shakeri, the last of four dual nationals to be freed after being detained on security-related charges, an Iranian news agency said on Tuesday.
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An Iranian-American academic imprisoned for months before being released on bail in August was permitted to leave Iran and was reuniting with her family in Austria, her daughter said Monday.
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Yaser E. Hamdi, a U.S. citizen captured in Afghanistan, will be freed and allowed to return to Saudi Arabia in the next few days.
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A U.S.-Iranian academic, freed on bail last month after more than three months in detention over spying accusations, flew out of Iran overnight and her case may not come to trial, one of her lawyers said on Monday.
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Iran has pardoned and released a French tourist convicted of taking photos of ships in the Persian Gulf, the French Foreign Ministry said Sunday.
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Human Rights Watch today reported the disappearance of another U.S. citizen believed to have been detained during a visit to Iran.
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WASHINGTON - The Justice Department has agreed to release a U.S. citizen held as an enemy combatant for more than two years, clearing the way for him to return to Saudi Arabia, officials said Wednesday...
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An Iranian-American journalist who was banned from leaving Iran for seven months is given permission to leave.
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Iran has freed on bail a U.S.-Iranian peace activist, Ali Shakeri, the last of four dual nationals to be released after they were detained on security-related charges, an Iranian news agency reported.
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A leading Muslim scholar who was barred from the United States at the request of the Department of Homeland Security has reapplied for the right to work there, saying Wednesday he has always condemned terrorism.