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Iran sentences 4 to death for billion-dollar embezzlement

Four people have been sentenced to death for fraudulently obtaining billion-dollar loans.

An Iraqi money dealer counts Iranian rial banknotes bearing a portrait of the late founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, at an exchange office in Baghdad on February 3, 2012.

ALI AL-SAADI

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Iran embezzlement scandal 30 7 2012