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Tehran: Missing Iranians could be in Israeli jail
 An Iranian official charged with hunting for three Iranian diplomats and a reporter who went missing in Lebanon more than two decades ago has said he believes they could still be alive and in an Israeli jail, the student news agency ISNA said Friday. "According to our latest information, the four Iranians have been seen in the Zionist regime's jails. If it is said they have been martyred, it is only to cover up the Zionist regime involvement in this issue," said Raed Mousavi, a member of an official follow-up committee charged with the case. He said the information that the four had been transferred to Israel came from someone released in a prisoner exchange between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hizbullah movement. "He had seen the four diplomats in Israeli prisons in 1988," said the official, who is also the father of one of the missing men. He added he believed Israel may have hoped to exchange them for missing Israeli airman Ron Arad. The four Iranians disappeared in northern Lebanon in July 1982.Posted by: Fred 2005-03-05 |
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