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Published: 20 July, 2009, 06:24


AFP Photo / Berhouz Mehri

Relatives have held a memorial service in St. Sarkis church in Tehran to remember the 45 passengers from Iran’s Armenian community who died in Wednesday’s plane crash.

 
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