Embassy cable tells of American's escape from Iran on horseback
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28-Nov-2010 (one comment)

CNN) -- The tens of thousands of diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks and released Sunday are full of policy discussions and geo-strategic issues -- but they also tell some fascinating human stories.

One such cable, sent from the American embassy in Turkey last year, tells of an elderly U.S. citizen's escape from neighboring Iran -- on a horse.

The cable, sent on February 11 2009, says that 75-year old Hossein Ghanbarzadeh Vahedi had been refused permission to leave Iran to return to the United States after visiting relatives the previous year.

Vahedi -- a dentist from Los Angeles, California -- had traveled to Tehran in early May 2008 and spent four weeks with family and friends without incident.

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IRI wanted to extort Iranian American $150,000

by yolanda on Sun Nov 28, 2010 07:37 PM PST

IRI confiscated this guy's American passport.... "it was made clear to him informally by the authorities at the court that if he paid a $150,000 fine the process would move more quickly."............he fled to Turkey without his passport......

I wonder how many this type of extortion cases happened to Iranian Americans!



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