Iran was excluded from a conference on democracy because of its trial of 13 Jews accused of spying for Israel, a source at the conference told The New York Times. Before traveling on to the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was among those attending the meeting, which brought together officials of some 100 nations in Warsaw.
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