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Thu, Oct 14 2010 American held in Iran for 30 months says to sue group Tweet This Share on LinkedIn Share on Facebook Related News Iran frees U.S. businessman held for 30 months: report Sat, Oct 16 2010 UPDATE 2-Iran says detained Germans admitted breaking law Fri, Oct 15 2010 Iran may be ready for nuclear talks by late October Sun, Oct 10 2010 Iran: ready for nuclear talks in late Oct/early Nov Sat, Oct 9 2010 WRAPUP 3-European oil firms resist U.S. pressure to quit Iran Fri, Oct 1 2010 Analysis & Opinion Washington Extra — Too much “truthiness” to handle? Former Iranian chief justice rises to senior Shi’ite rank, eligible to be next leader Related Topics World » Iranian American businessman Reza Taghavi speaks with Reuters in his home, after being released from prison in Tehran October 17, 2010. Credit: Reuters/Raheb Homavandi TEHRAN | Sun Oct 17, 2010 8:58am EDT TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian-American released after 30 months in a Tehran jail said he was duped into handing money to a U.S.-based group considered a terrorist organization in Iran and that he might now sue them. Reza Taghavi was held in May 2008 for giving $200 to Tondar, (Thunder), a group which aims to overthrow the Islamic Republic and restore the Iranian monarchy that was ousted in the 1979 revolution, according to its website. Taghavi, a 71-year-old retired businessman, said he was asked by someone to hand over the money without knowing it was going to an outlawed militant group. He did not identify who had asked him. The Iranian authorities eventually agreed, releasing him on Saturday. "I never heard the name of that group before in my life," he told Reuters TV in an interview in his home in northern Tehran. "They (judicial authorities) released me to see what I'm going to do against those people that they gave me the money for," he said. "I am going to file a suit against them." Iran does not recognize dual nationality and Taghavi said he needed to apply to the Swiss embassy, which handles U.S. interests in Iran, for travel documents and that he hoped to fly to the United States on Thursday. The incident is the latest personal story to highlight the poor relations between Tehran and Washington, which cut diplomatic ties shortly after Iran's Islamic revolution and are at odds over many issues, not least Iran's nuclear program. In January, Iran called on the United States to extradite members of a Tondar, which it called a "terrorist group." DETENTIONS State-run Press TV said Tondar was based in Los Angeles, which has a large Iranian-American population. The report said Taghavi had handed the money to the perpetrators of a mosque bombing in the Iranian city of Shiraz in 2008 that killed 14 people. He was held in Evin jail in Tehran, where two other Americans have been detained since their arrest in on July 31, 2009, near the Iraq border. They are accused of spying but their families say they were hiking in the region and may have strayed over the unmarked border by accident. The Gulf state of Oman said this month it was negotiating with Iran for their release. Their female companion, Sarah Shourd, was release on $500,000 bail last month and returned to the United States but Iranian officials say the two men will be tried. The detentions have further strained relations with Washington, which wants Iran to return to stalled talks about its nuclear program. Many countries fear Iran is seeking a nuclear bomb. Tehran denies this. 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