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Former Doordarshan journalist Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi, accused in the February 2012 Israeli diplomat attack case in Delhi, joined work this week with Iran’s state-run radio agency, IRIB. Kazmi had been arrested by Delhi Police in March 2012 after the latter claimed Kazmi to be a “facilitator” who “was in touch with the mastermind,” an Iranian national called Masoud Sedaghatzadeh. Many journalists and civil society bodies had defended Kazmi, though, saying he was “being targeted because he was a Muslim”, and that the “arrest was made under pressure from Israel” despite lack of solid evidence.