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srael and the United States have
strongly condemned the Iranian .
government for charging 13
Iranian Jews with spying for
America and the Jewish state.
Israel called fcr the immediate
release of the detainees, and the
United States criticized the arrests,
saying, "They are a very disturbing
signal." Iran's state-run radio broad-
cast a report of the charges Monday,
according to the British Broadcasting
Corporation and Associated Press.
The 13 "were accused of spying for
the 'Zionist regime' and 'world arro-
gance,' references to Israel and the
United States respectively," the AP
report said.
Espionage is punishable by death
in Iran, the AP report said, noting
that in 1997 Iran hanged two people
convicted of spying for Israel and
America.
Israel's Foreign Minister Ariel
Sharon on Tuesday met briefly with
United Nations Secretary-General
Koff Annan to discuss the arrests.
Annan has made "numerous
approaches on behalf of these peo-
ple," according to Malcolm Hoenlein,
the executive vice chairman of the
Conference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations,
which has been involved in the issue
since the Jews were arrested in March.
In New York on a personal visit,
Sharon on Tuesday declared that
"none of the arrested men was
involved in espionage and that none
of them has, or has had in the past,
any connection with any Israeli intel-
ligence agency," according to a state-
ment from Israel's Foreign Ministry.
"Israel is worried about these
arrests, which have occurred only
because they are Jewish. Israel is
deeply concerned about their fate and
demands their immediate release," the
statement said.
The detainees — who are believed
to include rabbis, teachers and leaders
of the Isfahan and Shiraz communi-
ties in southwestern Iran — had been
held for nearly three months without
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being charged.
Testifying before the U.S. House of
Representatives International Relations
Committee, Martin Indyk, U.S. assis-
tant secretary of state for Near Eastern
affairs, called on Iran "to ensure that
no harm comes to these individuals
and to release them immediately."
Hoenlein said the Presidents
Conference, whose organization rep-
resents 55 Jewish groups, had been
working with various governments
around the world to help secure the
Jews' release.
In addition to Annan, other repre-
sentatives of the United Nations,
human rights groups, Jewish organi-
zations, humanitarian agencies and
business people with interests in the
region have been involved in the
issue, Hoenlein said.
The Iranian Jewish community in
the United States has also been
involved, he said.
Advocates had worked with the
utmost discretion in the hope that such
cover would give Iran the "chance to
back off" We received assurances all
along" that the Iranian government
would "take certain steps" and that "peo-
ple would be released," Hoenlein said.
"They promised all along different
things, none of which have come to
fruition." Now, he said, those involved
are preparing to "go all out to respond
to what's happening." Following a con-
ference call Monday night, Hoenlein
and Ronald Lauder, the newly installed
chairman of the Presidents Conference,
issued a statement in which they asked
for a redoubling of all efforts on behalf
of the Iranian Jews.
"We call upon all civilized nations
to intervene with the government of
Iran to put an end to this injustice,"
the statement said. L
Correction
Hite' Day School
Headmaster Mark Smiley has
three children in school in Israel,
not just a daughter as was men-
tioned in the June 4 story
"Waiting For Space."