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US State Department maintaining Iran property valued at US$50m
The arrangement is one of the stranger consequences of the diplomatic freeze between the two former allies
Add BT as a preferred sourcePublished Sun, Sep 25, 2016 · 09:50 PM
Washington
THE US$12 million compound, once a playground for the Iranian ambassador and guests such as Elizabeth Taylor, Andy Warhol and Richard Nixon, now sits empty on Washington's Embassy Row.
The five-storey Upper East Side town house that served as a consulate was long ago repurposed as the headquarters of a dealer of old master paintings.
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