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Oman in rare spotlight after bail deal with Iran (AP)

September 15th, 2010

** RETRANSMISSION FOR ALTERNATE CROP OF CAI103 ** Sarah Shourd, 32, of the U.S., right, embraces her mother Nora Shourd, left, on Sarah Shourd's arrival at the royal airport in Muscat, Oman, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010, after leaving Tehran, Iran. The American woman released by Iran on Tuesday after more than a year in prison said she was grateful to Iran's president for her freedom shortly before she boarded a flight to the Gulf sultanate of Oman where her mother greeted her with a warm embrace. (AP Photo/Sultan al-Hasani)AP - Oman’s royal leaders have long preferred the understated approach: No high-rises like their Gulf neighbors and policies that quietly balance close ties with both Washington and Tehran.


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