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Iran has refused to send home a Saudi diplomat injured by demonstrators who stormed the Saudi Embassy in Tehran after riots in Mecca left more than 400 pilgrims dead, a Saudi editor said. Jamal Ameri, an editor of the English-language Saudi Gazette in Jidda, said that Massoud Gamidi, a political attache, was “critically wounded” in the leg and pelvis. “Iranian officials have refused to offer him medical help,” Ameri said after a telephone interview with Bashir Roomi, the Saudi charge d’affaires in Tehran. In Washington, a Saudi Embassy spokesman reported that Iran has said it is holding one diplomat for “medical reasons.”
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