Jewish groups in Moscow plan to demonstrate Thursday outside the Iranian Embassy in a show of solidarity with 13 Iranian Jews facing trial on charges of spying for Israel and the United States. Iranian diplomats in Moscow have already lodged a protest against the planned action, and the president of the Russian Jewish Congress was to meet on the eve of the protest with the Iranian ambassador to discuss the case.
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