Held in Iran, scholar refused to  despair
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To combat the depression and despair during her 105-day stint in Iran's notorious Evin prison, Haleh Esfandiari welcomed all distractions and blocked thoughts of her beloved home and family.
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Out of jail, but with charges still pending, Ramin Jahanbegloo, an Iranian philosopher, returned to New Dehli to finish his latest book, âIndia Revisited: Conversations on Contemporary India.â
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U.S.-Iranian reporter Parnaz Azima has been given her passport back and is free to depart, after months of being prevented from leaving Tehran, her employer and Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi said on Tuesday.
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Iranian Nobel Peace prize winner and lawyer, Shirin Ebadi, has been told by officials that a detained U.S.-Iranian academic charged with spying does not need her counsel, an Iranian news agency reported on Monday.
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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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TEHRAN, Jan. 18 -- Ali Akbar Assadi entered the dark room in downtown Tehran, only to be blocked by a wall of men. The air was moist from sweat. Darkness engulfed him as he made his way forward.
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Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi said  Sunday she was ready to face arrest for refusing to appear  before the Islamic state's feared Revolutionary Court.
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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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The American Studies program at the University of Tehran is a bold experiment in a nation locked in bitter confrontation with the United States &#151; at a school where chants of "Death to America!" still punctuate Friday prayers.
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A detained Iranian-American told reporters visiting Tehran's notorious Evin prison on Tuesday that he expected to be released soon after being held in solitary confinement since May.
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An Iranian-American journalist held in her native country for months and accused of security-related offenses was permitted to leave Iran, her employer said Tuesday.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - An Iranian refugee claimant who spent almost three years in sanctuary in a Vancouver church before being arrested on the weekend is suddenly a free man.
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A prominent Iranian cleric said on Friday the fatwa death warrant against author Salman Rushdie issued by the late Iranian Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini in 1989 was "still alive" in the Islamic Republic.
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Iran's hard-line judiciary makes a rare admission of error in a case against Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi.
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Iran's judiciary confirmed on Tuesday the detention of an Iranian-American social scientist on charges of spying, one of a number that U.S. officials and think-tanks had reported held.
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An Iranian diplomat who was seized in Iraq last month is freed, but the fate of other hostages is unclear.
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For Washington scholar Haleh Esfandiari, the saga is finally over. Esfandiari arrived in the United States yesterday, more than eight months after she was detained in Tehran, interrogated and later jailed in Iran's most notorious prison.