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Iran airs video on detained Princeton student

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Iranian state television has aired a video featuring a Chinese-American graduate student now serving a 10-year prison sentence for allegedly "infiltrating" the country while doing doctoral research.

 

The new video aired Sunday night about Xiyue Wang comes after Iranian state television earlier focused on British-Iranian national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.

 

Wang was conducting doctoral research on Iran's Qajar dynasty when he was arrested in Iran amid the detention of others with Western ties.

 

The footage aired Sunday accused Wang of trying to take around 4,500 documents from the country. An interrogator asks Wang why he did it, with other footage showing him emotional.

 

On Thursday, Iranian state television aired footage about Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who is serving a five-year prison sentence for allegedly planning the "soft toppling" of Iran's government.

 

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