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Iran Repeats Charges Against Detained Iranian-American Scholars
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June
6, 2007 -- Iran has reiterated espionage charges against two detained
U.S.-Iranian scholars. The Iran Students News Agency today quoted Hassan Hadad,
Tehran's deputy prosecutor, as saying Haleh Esfandiari and Kian Tajbakhsh have
admitted carrying out activities, but they said their intention was helping
Iran.
 Kian
Tajbakhsh
The agency said a third U.S.-Iranian,
Parnaz Azima, has been accused of working for "counterrevolutionary" Radio
Farda, which is operated by the U.S.-funded broadcasters RFE/RL and Voice of
America, and her case is ready to go to court.
Haleh
Esfandiari
Azima is not in jail, but her
passport had been confiscated.
Parnaz
AzimaOn May 31, international human rights groups called on Iran to release Esfandiari and Tajbakhsh and peace activist
Ali Shakeri. All three are being held on suspicions of spying or acting against
state interests.
The United States has denied they or Azima are spies or
clandestine employees of the U.S. government.
(AFP, ISNA)
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