Middle East
Iran Charges Student Who Was In the U.S.
An Iranian who was studying physics in Texas went on trial in Tehran this week on charges related to espionage. Omid Kokabee, 29, a graduate student at the University of Texas, Austin, went home to Iran to visit his family back in February. When Kokabee failed to return to Austin, his friends discovered he had been jailed and charged in Iran with communicating with a hostile government and taking illegal funds.