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Aljazeera: Iran's foreign minister wants the Syrian government to look into the case of an Al Jazeera English journalist who has been missing in Syria since Friday afternoon. Dorothy Parvaz left the Qatari capital, Doha, for Syria to cover events in the country. However, there has been no contact with the 39-year-old since she disembarked from a Qatar Airways flight in Damascus. Parvaz is an American, Canadian and Iranian citizen. Ali Akbar Salehi, the Iranian foreign minister, said at a news conference in Doha on Monday that Iran wants the Syrians to look into the matter. "I hope that it is not true, but if that is the case, then we demand the government of Syria to look into this," Salehi said in response to a question on what Iran would undertake to secure Parvaz's release. Parvaz joined Al Jazeera in 2010 and recently reported on the Japanese earthquake and tsunami for the network. She graduated from the University of British Columbia, obtained a masters from Arizona University, and held journalism fellowships at both Harvard and Cambridge, UK >>>