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Sep 20, 2007, 10:56 GMT

Iran releases Iranian-US scholar on bail

Tehran - The Iranian judiciary on Thursday confirmed the release of Iranian-US scholar Kian Tajbakhsh on a bail amounting to 1 billion rials (107,300 dollars), IRNA news agency reported. Tajbakhsh, a sociologist and urban planning consultant with George Soros' Open Society Institute, has been jailed for more than four months for having links to US think-tanks which Tehran accuses of trying to topple the Islamic system. The scholar had told visiting reporters earlier that conditions in the prison were satisfactory and that he had access to television and books in his solitary cell. He added that he also had daily phone contacts and weekly visits with his pregnant wife. It is not yet clear whether Tajbakhsh could leave the country, like the two other Iranian-US nationals, Haleh Esfandiari and Parinaz Azimi. © 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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