September 11, 2010 6:27 PM

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Iran calls off release of female US citizen

Iran has called off the release of the female US citizen arrested in northwestern Iran for entering the country from neighboring Iraq. Tehran Prosecutor General Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi says judicial proceedings in the Sarah Shourd's case have not been completed. Dolatabadi did not say when she would be freed. Earlier, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast had said yesterday that given that Eid al-Fitr is upon us, it was decided that this lady should be released soon to rejoin her family. Reports say, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had himself intervened in the planned release of Shourd who, along with the two other detained US citizens, has been accused of spying.

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