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Iran 'liberator' bit too busy to invade this week

By Mohsen Asgari and Gareth Smyth

Published: September 30 2004 03:00 | Last updated: September 30 2004 03:00

Tehran's bush telegraph has been abuzz in recent days in expectation that amysterious exile would return to Iran and overthrow the Islamic Republic.

Taxi-drivers, housewives and shopkeepers have been talking about little else other than Ahura Pirooz Khaleghi Yazdi, a 57-year-old businessman based in Los Angeles who is promising through satellite television broadcasts to land in Iran with 50 aircraft full of exiles, journalists and United Nations monitors.

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