Here is an article about the Iranians:
SUBWAY MYSTERY
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/11115.htm November 18, 2003 -- Two Iranian diplomats who arrived in New York recently to work at their country's U.N. mission are being investigated by the FBI after a transit cop caught them videotaping the subway in Queens, The Post has learned.
The sharp-eyed officer spotted the suspicious pair entering the elevated station at Roosevelt Avenue and 52nd Street in Woodside at 1:30 a.m. Sunday and shooting tape in various directions as they waited for a Manhattan-bound No. 7 train.
The cop continued to watch the two men after they boarded the train and continued to shoot video.
As the train reached the Courthouse Square station, the officer approached the pair to question them.
The men indicated they did not speak English, so cops located a Farsi-speaking officer.
The men said they worked for Iran's U.N. mission, which afforded them diplomatic immunity, and said they had been coming back from a party.
Sources said the Iranians arrived in the United States, via Vienna, on Oct. 22 on three-month visas.
The cops confiscated their camera, which contained about 10 minutes of video - all shot in the subway. There was no recording of a party on the tape.
The FBI-NYPD Joint Terrorist Task Force was notified and an FBI spokesman said yesterday, "We are investigating all aspects of this incident."
Iranian officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
Sources said there have been similar cases, but in most of them the suspects appeared to be "freelance operatives" or "terrorist wannabes" who turned the tapes over to anti-American operatives in foreign countries to score points.
But there have been several serious incidents involving Middle Eastern men - from nations aligned with international terrorist groups, including al Qaeda - caught videotaping landmarks and bridges.
"Sometimes they run away when they're approached and rip out the tape they shot to destroy it," one source said.
The latest case was not the first time employees at Iran's U.N. mission have been caught shooting video in suspicious circumstances.
In June 2002, two security employees at the mission were caught casing the Statue of Liberty, the Brooklyn Bridge and entrances to tunnels leading into Manhattan.
They were expelled.
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