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The Namazi family says negotiations with Iran should start only after foreign prisoners detained unfairly are released. Family handout
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US citizen Baquer Namazi is greeted by an official upon his arrival in Oman. Oman News Agency
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The former UN official, 85, was arrested in February 2016 while trying to visit his son, who is also detained in Iran. Oman News Agency
Mr Namazi will have an operation at the Cleveland Clinic in Abu Dhabi, the family said. Courtesy of Namazi family/via Reuters
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Mr Namazi with his son, Siamak. Babak Namazi
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The Namazi family says negotiations with Iran should start only after foreign prisoners detained unfairly are released. Family handout
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US citizen Baquer Namazi is greeted by an official upon his arrival in Oman. Oman News Agency
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The former UN official, 85, was arrested in February 2016 while trying to visit his son, who is also detained in Iran. Oman News Agency
Mr Namazi will have an operation at the Cleveland Clinic in Abu Dhabi, the family said. Courtesy of Namazi family/via Reuters
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Mr Namazi with his son, Siamak. Babak Namazi
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The Namazi family says negotiations with Iran should start only after foreign prisoners detained unfairly are released. Family handout
US-Iranian Baquer Namazi arrives in UAE for treatment after six years detained in Iran
Former UN official was allowed to leave Iran on Wednesday on an Omani flight and then transferred to Abu Dhabi
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James Haines-Young
06 October, 2022
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