US has arrested Iranian scientist
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The United States has arrested and charged an Iranian semiconductor scientist with violating US export laws by buying high-tech US lab equipment, a development likely to further worsen Iranian-US tensions.
Prison records show the US is holding Seyed Mojtaba Atarodi, 54, a microchip expert and assistant professor at Tehran's prestigious Sharif University of Technology, in a federal facility outside San Francisco. The Iranian interest section in the Pakistani embassy in Washington said it was aware of the arrest. (AP)
