The last five Jews still held in an Iranian prison have been released, according to a U.S. Jewish leader. “We welcome” the news “and hope that it will now be permanent,” Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, told JTA on Wednesday.
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