(Times-UK) Anthony Loyd - Few would recognize Abbas Abdi, 49, as the leader of the students who stormed the American Embassy in Tehran in October 1979. Abdi was released from jail a month ago, his second term in the capital's Evin prison where he served 2 1/2 years, much of it in solitary confinement. His crime? As a latter-day architect of reform and critic of the regime, his polling company published results suggesting that 74% of Tehranis favored dialogue with the U.S.
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