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Iran to free Lebanese man jailed for US spying
2019-06-05
[IsraelTimes] Nizar Zakka, a US resident, to be released after 2015 arrest for alleged ’deep ties’ to American military and intelligence.

Iran is to free a Lebanese national held since 2015 and sentenced to 10 years in jail on charges of spying for Washington, the foreign ministry in Beirut said Tuesday.

Nizar Zakka,
...a US permanent resident who advocated for internet freedom and has done work for the US government, Mr. Zakka disappeared while visiting Tehran for a state-sponsored conference, according to a statement from the Washington-based group IJMA3-USA, which advocates for Internet freedom across the Middle East...
a resident of the United States in his 50s, was tossed in the calaboose
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
 in September 2015 during a visit to Iran, where he was convicted the following July.

The foreign ministry, quoted by Leb’s official news agency NNA, said Zakka was pardoned at the request of Beirut as a gesture for this week’s Eid holidays marking the end of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan.

At the time of his arrest, state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
in Iran charged Zakka had "deep ties to military and intelligence services of the United States," Iran’s arch-foe.

It broadcast photographs of a man in military uniform it said was of Zakka at an American base.

The report on his imminent release following almost four years of detention comes at a time of heightened US-Iranian tensions.

Washington last month deployed an aircraft carrier task force, B-52 bombers and an amphibious assault ship to the Gulf, along with additional troops over an alleged Iranian plan to attack US assets.
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