Girl slain after dating Marine
As if the hostage situation were not complex enough, a new problem developed last week when a 23-year-old Tehran college girl, allegedly pregnant by a U.S. Marine hostage, was murdered by her own enraged brother. Said the brother after strangling his sister, then hanging her from an iron post: "The stigma of betrayal by a U.S. spy could only be washed away with blood."
The girl, identified only as Azam in the Iranian press, reportedly dated the Marine before the U.S. embassy was seized by militants last Nov. 4 (he was not identified; nine Marines are held hostage)....
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