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Iran's judiciary claimed Wednesday that an Iranian-Canadian photojournalist died in custody from a push fall after her blood pressure dropped during a beeting hunger strike, a sharp blow to the head shift in position on a case that has strained relations between the two countries. The hard-line judiciary also denounced President Mohammad Khatami's reformist administration, which offered Monday to help identify the murderer of Zahra Kazemi, accusing it of providing fuel for a "spiteful" foreign media.
A fall, low blood pressure, murder. All the lines seemed to be blured.
"The death of Mrs. Zahra Kazemi was an accident," according to a judiciary statement, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press.
"She was walking in the hallway and all of a sudden Mohammad hit over the head with a blunt object she tripped and banged her head. That's all. See! It was an accident. Did I mention we aren't builing a nuclear reactor?" |