http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,274394,00.html

TEHRAN, Iran —  Iran on Monday charged detained Iranian-American
academic Haleh Esfandiari with allegedly seeking to topple the ruling
Islamic establishment, state-run television reported.

Below is a timeline of events leading to today:

— December 21, 2006, Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East
Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and a
dual Iranian-American national, traveled from Washington D.C. to
Tehran, Iran to visit her 93-year old mother for one week.

— On December 30, 2006, on her way to the airport to catch a flight
back to Washington, the taxi in which Dr. Esfandiari was riding was
stopped by three masked, knife-wielding men. They threatened to kill
her, and they took away all of her belongings, including her Iranian
and American passports.

— On January 3, when applying for replacement Iranian travel documents
at the passport office, Dr. Esfandiari was invited to an "interview"
by a man from Iran's Ministry of Intelligence.

— Beginning on January 4, she was subjected to a series of
interrogations that stretched out over the next six weeks, sometimes
continuing for as many as four days a week, and sometimes stretching
across seven and eight hours in a single day. Dr. Esfandiari went home
every evening.

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