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LONDON – Iran’s president said Tuesday that two Americans arrested two years ago while hiking the Iran-Iraq frontier and imprisoned on espionage charges would be freed within two days as a humanitarian gesture. The move seemed timed to portray him more favorably before he attends the U.N. General Assembly meeting next week. The remarks by the president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in an interview with NBC’s “Today” show from Tehran, came a month after Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal, both 29, were sentenced to eight years in an Iranian prison on the spying…
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