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TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran has banned an aide to Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi and a peace activist from travelling abroad, Ebadi’s rights group the Human Rights Defenders Centre said on its website on Sunday. Narges Mohammadi, deputy head of the centre, and Soraya Azizpanah were stopped on Friday at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini airport as they were headed to Guatemala, the group said. It said the two women were on way to Guatemala to speak about the role of women in democracy at a conference being held from May 10 to 12. “They were prevented from travelling after their passports were stamped… and they were about to board,” it said. “Officials seized their passports and they have to report to the revolutionary court.”