Iranian Diplomat Freed in Iraq, Hopes Raised for Others
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An Iranian diplomat taken hostage in  Iraq last month was released by his captors on Monday but the  fate of at least 11 other foreigners, including a Briton  threatened with beheading, remained unclear.
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By Scheherezade Faramarzi, Associated Press, 9/27/2004 10:24. BAGHDAD, Iraq  A kidnapped Iranian diplomat was released Monday after nearly two months in captivity, the Iranian Embassy said.
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A Polish woman kidnapped in Iraq last  month has been freed and flown to Poland and said she was  treated well, raising hopes for other foreign hostages.
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BAGHDAD  - An Iranian diplomat and an Egyptian telecom worker held for days by Islamic militants in Iraq were freed as 12 people died in fresh violence across the country.
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BAGHDAD: An Iranian diplomat was freed on Monday after a 55-day hostage ordeal at the hands of the same militant group which is holding two French newsmen, as 19 people were killed in fresh Iraq violence.
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An Iranian diplomat taken hostage in Iraq last month has been released by his captors but the fate of at least 11 other foreigners, including a Briton threatened with beheading, remain unclear.
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TEHRAN -- Iran yesterday released liberal intellectual Ramin Jahanbegloo, who was accused of working with the United States to overthrow the government, a human rights activist said. Ramin Jahanbegloo was released from Evin prison after four months of confinement, said Kouhyar Goodarzi, a member of the Student Committee of Human Rights Reporters of Iran. Jahanbegloo was arrested in April but ...
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Formation of a national unity government in Baghdad has cleared the way for proposed direct talks between the United States and Iran about the situation inside Iraq, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said Sunday.
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BAGHDAD -- Washington is sending a veteran Middle East hand. Tehran's envoy is a British-educated diplomat considered to be one of Iran's leading Western analysts.
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BAGHDAD, SEPTEMBER 27: An Iranian diplomat, Fereidoun Jahani, taken hostage in Iraq last month, was released on Monday amid continued violence countrywide, underlining a warning by US Secretary of State Colin Powell that Iraqâs insurgency was worsening.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's leader and U.S. officials moved quickly Wednesday to squelch the idea a top female germ-warfare scientist for Saddam Hussein would be freed soon, after a senior Iraqi official said the decision had been made to release her...
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Iran's foreign minister indicated Monday his country would take part in at least part of an international conference on Iraq in Baghdad, which would be the first U.S.-Iranian contact in more than two years.
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A kidnapped Iranian diplomat was released Monday after nearly two months in captivity, the Iranian Embassy said. Meanwhile, Jordan's King Abdullah II said he believes two abducted Italian aid workers are still alive despite claims they had been killed.
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Eight Chinese hostages freed by guerrillas in Iraq at the weekend were in good spirits and would return home soon, state media said on Monday.
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Iran has released Kian Tajbakhsh, an Iranian-American academic held in prison since May on charges of endangering Iran's security, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported Thursday.
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An Iranian-American reporter who was trapped in Iran for months on suspicion of trying to stir up a revolution was allowed to leave the country Tuesday and return to the United States, her employer said.
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The United States has released one of about 10 Iranian prisoners it is holding in Iraq, U.S. forces and the Iranian embassy said on Wednesday.