Just appeared on fp of NYT:
An Iranian diplomat seized two months ago in Iraq has been released, Iran's official news agency reported Tuesday, citing informed sources in Tehran.
Jalal Sharafi, the second secretary at the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad, will return to the Iranian capital later Tuesday, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
The report gave no indication of why or how Sharafi had been freed.
The news is accompanied by an other item indicating that the issue of the captured UK Marines might also be nearing a resolution.
The next two days are ''fairly critical'' to resolving the dispute over a seized British navy crew, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday, after Iran's chief international negotiator offered a new approach to end the standoff with Tehran.
Is it all starting to make sense now?
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