[New York Sun] Eli Lake - When Iran's ex-president Mohammed Khatami was having his picture taken with admirers at a gala dinner sponsored by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, he received an unexpected summons to appear at the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York in Manhattan. On Thursday, lawyers representing seven Iranian Jewish families living in Los Angeles filed a lawsuit demanding that Khatami pay compensation for the disappearance of 12 of their relatives who were detained, imprisoned, and in some cases tortured as they tried to leave Iran for Pakistan between 1994 and 1997.
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