Iran Asks for Help to Secure Iranians Kidnapped in Syria

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16. Here is the same voa article posted on another website

Looks like it was posted 17 minutes before mine was,
same title, same text, same source link:

http://www.carbonated.tv/news/iran-asks-for-help-to-secure-iranians-kidnapped-in-syria

Iran Asks For Help To Secure Iranians Kidnapped In Syria
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added Aug 5, 2012 6:05:03 AM

Iranian media said Sunday Tehran has asked Turkey and Qatar to help secure the release of 48 Iranian national kidnapped Saturday in Damascus. Iran has described the victims as religious pilgrims. However, al-Arabiya television says the Syrian rebels have described them as elite Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

Iran backs the Syrian government, while Turkey and Qatar support the Syrian opposition.

Clinton to Turkey

The U.S. State Department announced Sunday that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will visit Turkey Saturday to discuss the deteriorating situation in neighboring Syria where a mass uprising against President Bashar al-Assad has been underway for more than 17 months.

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said in Malawi, Clinton's latest stop on her African tour, that the U.S. top diplomat is going to Istanbul "for bilateral consultations with the Turkish government on Syria, as well as to cover other timely issues."

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Source: Voice of America