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American Scholar Released from Iranian Jail

Carnegie's Iran expert, Karim Sadjadpour, a friend of Haleh Esfandiari, talks about the case with NPR's Melissa Block.

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NPR's All Things Considered

on August 21, 2007

Source: NPR's All Things Considered

Haleh Esfandiari, an Iranian-American scholar and director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, who had been jailed for months in Iran, has been freed on bail.

Carnegie's Iran expert, Karim Sadjadpour, a friend of Esfandiari, talks about the case with NPR's Melissa Block.

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