World IN BRIEF : LEBANON : Iran Envoy Said to Hold Hostage Talks
From Times staff and Wire reports
Iran sent the brother of President Hashemi Rafsanjani to Lebanon for the second time last month to discuss the release of Western hostages, a senior Muslim security source in Beirut said. The source said Mahmoud Rafsanjani arrived 10 days ago and had met many officials of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah (Party of God) which is thought, despite its denials, to be holding most of the Western hostages in Lebanon.
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