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US releases Iranian diplomats in Iraq, ambassador says
Jul 9, 2009, 9:32 GMT
Tehran - The United States has released five Iranians it arrested in 2007 in Iraq, Iran's ambassador to Baghdad told Iran's Fars news agency Thursday.
Hassan Kazemi-Qmi said the five were delivered to the Iraqi prime minister and would later Thursday be handed over to the Iranian embassy.
Iran said the quintet were diplomats and had diplomatic immunity, but the United States called them 'foreign intelligence agents,' who were working to destabilize Iraq and target foreign troops there.
They were detained in the northern city of Irbil in January 2007.
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