[New York Times] Neil MacFarquhar - Haleh Esfandiari, an Iranian-American academic who is director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, was imprisoned Tuesday in Tehran after being barred from leaving the country four months ago. Ms. Esfandiari had endured repeated interrogations since December and was taken to Evin prison. Esfandiari, who left Iran at the time of the 1979 Islamic revolution, had returned twice annually over the past decade to visit her ailing 93-year-old mother.
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