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Posted on 12/17/2003 7:27:50 PM PST by nuconvert
Iran Frees Berkeley Lecturer / Teacher had been held on spy charges
SF Chronicle Charlie Goodyear, Chronicle Staff Writer
Monday, November 10, 2003 / A UC Berkeley lecturer held for nearly four months in an Iranian prison on espionage charges was released on Sunday and is prepared to fight a legal battle to clear his name, his friends and family members said.
Dariush Zahedi, 37, was freed on $250,000 bail paid by his family and is still subject to a criminal prosecution. He was arrested on July 10 while on an annual trip to visit relatives.
Although Zahedi, a vocal critic of the Iranian government, is now technically free to leave his native country, friends and family said Sunday that he intends to hire a lawyer and stay to face his accusers.
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