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Fri 11 Nov 2009Iran denies Nobel prize claim
Iran today denied Norway's accusation that Tehran had confiscated the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to human rights campaigner Shirin Ebadi in 2003.
"We are surprised to see Norwegian authorities taking a tendentious stance and in a hasty attitude ignoring laws and rules which are respected by everyone," Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said in comments carried by semi-official news agency Mehr.
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