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Iran Detains Diplomat from Spain

   VOA News  February 15, 2011

   Spain says it has summoned Iran's ambassador in Madrid for questioning
   after  Iranian  authorities  detained  a  senior  Spanish  diplomat in
   Tehran.

   Spanish   Foreign  Ministry  officials  say  Iranian  security  forces
   detained  Ignacio  Perez Cambra near the Spanish Embassy on Monday and
   held him for four hours.
   There  was  no  immediate  word  from  Iran  on  why  the diplomat was
   detained,  but  some  news  reports  say  he  was  near the site of an
   anti-government rally organized by opposition activists.
   The  French  news  agency,  AFP,  quotes  a  Spanish  Foreign Ministry
   spokeswoman as saying Spain summoned Iran's ambassador to protest what
   it considers a "very serious and unacceptable incident."

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