Iranian dissident arrested
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The retired general, a former commander of the Iranian military police, had been summoned by a revolutionary prosecutor but had refused the injunction, protesting that the summons was a deliberate insult to both the Iranian armed forces and the honour of the Iranian officers, since it did not mention his army rank and referred to him as being without proper domicile.
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