The Forty-eight Iranians who were reportedly kidnapped in Syria earlier Saturday were taken by the Free Syrian Army, the Iranian Fars news agency said later in the day.
Earlier, Iranian state news agency IRNA quoted an unnamed official in Iran's embassy in Damascus as saying that the pilgrims were seized by "armed groups" on the Damascus airport road as they returned from a religious shrine.
Source and full story: Haaretz, 4 August 2012
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