American unheard from in 2 months
A U.S. and Iranian citizen who visited Iran this year has not been heard from since March, and a UC Irvine institute he is affiliated with said it was concerned.
Ali Shakeri is a California businessman who serves on an advisory board to the Center for Citizen Peacebuilding, which studies how citizens can promote peace in divided societies.
A Human Rights Watch report quoted unidentified associates of Shakeri as saying he was “being detained by the Iranian authorities.”
At least three other Iranian Americans have been arrested, detained or otherwise prevented from leaving Iran in recent months.
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