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Tue, 03/30/2010 - 17:31
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Kidnapped Iranian diplomat in Pakistan freed

TEHRAN, March 30 (MNA) – An Iranian diplomat who had been kidnapped by gunmen in Peshawar, Pakistan, in 2008 has been freed by Iranian intelligence forces and brought to home, the Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced here on Tuesday.

Heshmatollah Attarzadeh, commercial attaché of the Iranian consulate in Peshawar, the capital of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), was kidnapped from Hayatabad neighborhood when he was heading to his office on February 13, 2008.

Attarzadeh was freed in a very complicated intelligence operation, the ministry said.


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