American Detained in Iran Appeals for State Dept. Help
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Parnaz Azima, one of several Americans  detained in Iran, said yesterday that her lawyers and Iranian officials have warned that her case could take years to resolve and appealed to the State Department to keep pressure on Tehran over the fate of the imprisoned or detained Americans.
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A U.S.-Iranian academic, who was detained for more than three months on spying accusations and freed on bail in August, flew out of Iran overnight, one of her lawyers said on Monday.
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President George Bush yesterday demanded the release of four Americans being detained in Iran, opening up yet another area of dispute on a day of feverish speculation that elements within the administration were pushing for military action against Tehran.
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A lawyer for one of three Americans jailed in Afghanistan for illegally running a private anti-terror campaign and secret jail has asked for a US Congressional probe to look into bringing the trio home.
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The State Department accused Iran on Friday of detaining at least four student activists and called for their release.
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While the US State Department demands an explanation, Iran's Foreign Ministry calls the incident 'normal.'
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An American-Iranian academic, detained in Iran on spying charges, has been held in solitary confinement for 40 days, Nobel Peace prize winner and human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi said on Tuesday.
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International human rights groups urged Iran on Thursday to immediately release four Iranian-American scholars and activists being held on suspicion of spying.
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TEHRAN, Iran  -- 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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A Vietnamese-born U.S. citizen was  detained in mid-August, a government spokesman said on Thursday  as rights groups complained he was arrested after using the  Internet to call for alternatives to one-party communist rule.
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WASHINGTON -- Iran will complete its investigation of the Americans imprisoned or detained in Tehran this week and decide whether to try them for "crimes against national security" or free them, the spokesman for Iran's judiciary said yesterday.
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Iran will allow an American woman to travel to Tehran to get information about her husband, a former FBI agent who was last seen at a resort island off the country's southern coast, the Foreign Ministry said Sunday.
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The United States said on Friday it  is concerned Iran has arrested a journalist and stopped him  picking up a rights award in New York in a sign of what it  called worsening violations in the Islamic republic.
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The US expresses grave concern over what it calls the worsening human rights situation in Iran.
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A radio reporter being detained in Iran urged the Bush administration yesterday to end its vocal campaign for democracy there, saying it encouraged Iran's government to curtail its citizens' freedoms.
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Iran has detained a fourth Iranian American, California businessman Ali Shakeri, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday, calling his arrest part of a "disturbing pattern" of harassment of dual citizens.
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President Bush on Friday called on Tehran to release four detained Iranian-Americans "immediately and unconditionally."