DUBAI Iran said on Monday it had freed a Canadian-Iranian academic detained since June, a week after the two nations began talks on a potential restoration of diplomatic relations broken in 2012.Homa Hoodfar, 65, is a teacher at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada and an expert on gender and Islam.”Homa Hoodfar, the retired professor of Canadian universities, who had been detained in Iran based on some accusations, was released this afternoon for humanitarian reasons including illness,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi said. He said Hoodfar had left the Islamic Republic and was travelling to Canada via the Gulf Arab …
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