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Jailed Iranian-American Faces 15 Years In Iran Prison

Dec. 19, 2009
Scholar Kian Tajbakhsh was supposed to teach at Columbia University this fall. But he's been detained in an Iranian prison since the summer, when he was arrested in the aftermath of Iran's presidential elections. In October, Tajbakhsh was sentenced to 15 years in jail. Now friends, family and...
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