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Ahmadinejad’s cameraman defects, seeks asylum in US
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A lawyer for a cameraman who was accompanying Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the US for the United Nations General Assembly in New York says his client has defected. Paul O’Dwyer, a New York City-based lawyer who is representing Hassan Gol Khanban, confirmed Sunday that his client is seeking asylum in the US He provided no other details

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Perhaps he stepped away during one of the Iranians' many shopping trips. The New York Daily News reported that members of the Iranian delegation spent most of their free time shopping for drug store staples like Tylenol, shampoos, vitamins, and discount shoes that they can't get back home due to tough international sanctions. All while the president and his team settled down on two whole floors of the posh Warwick Hotel