Dorothy Parvaz Released
Anchor Marco Werman speaks with the Fred Parvaz, father of Dorothy Parvaz, the Al-Jazeera journalist who was released Wednesday from detention in Tehran's Evin prison. She was sent to Iran in April from Syria where she had tried to enter to report on the protests.
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