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    U.S. Resident Imprisoned In Iran On Spying Charges Returns To America

    Nazir Zakka, a Lebanese citizen, was recently released from Iran's notorious Evin prison, where he served nearly four years.
    by Ashley Westerman Jun 18, 2019 1 minute
    Nizar Zakka (C), a Lebanese national and US resident arrested in Iran in 2015 and sentenced to 10 years in jail on espionage charges, gives a press conference in Beirut after he was freed in early June.

    A U.S. permanent resident who was recently released from prison in Iran is finally making his way back to America, where his three sons live.

    Nizar Zakka, 52, who is a citizen of Lebanon, was arrested in September 2015 in Tehran while Despite denying the charges, he was sentenced to 10 years in Iran's Evin Prison.

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