Iran informed German officials that nine of the 13 Jews being detained by Tehran on espionage charges are not spies, according to the vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. But Malcolm Hoenlein downplayed the development. The Iranians have “said so many things,” Hoenlein said, “and even trying to pinpoint the blame on [the four other detainees] is not acceptable. There is no evidence that any one” of the detainees is guilty.
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