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Sean Penn Asked Hugo Chavez to Help Free the U.S. Hikers from Iran

U.S. hikers Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer had been imprisoned in Iran for two years when a joint effort between the U.N., Iraq, Oman freed them last week. Now, new details reveal the involvement of Venezuela’s president (and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ally) Hugo Chavez in the process, and the “American intellectual” who helped bring Chavez onboard: Sean Penn .

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Sean Penn Asked Hugo Chavez to Help Free the U.S. Hikers from Iran

Josh Fattal and mother picture

File photo taken on May 20, 2010 shows American hiker Josh Fattal (L) and his mother attending a press conference in Tehran, Iran. Iran#39;s judiciary has sentenced two Americans, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, detained in Iran on charges of espionage to eight years in jail, the state IRIN TV website reported on Aug. 20, 2011 Tehran#39;s Prosecutor General Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi on Sunday confirmed the earlier reports that each of the detained U.S. hikers was sentenced to eight years in prison o

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Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd

“Shane told me that he proposed to Sarah in the yard of Evin Prison on Jan. 6, the very same day that we applied for our visas to go visit them,” Bauer#39;s mother, Cindy Hickey, said in a joint statement from all three mothers. “We#39;re all so overjoyed at the news but it#39;s obviously impossible to know when the wedding will take place. We just hope and pray that Iran will do the right thing and release them so they can get on with their lives.” Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd#39;s lives are o

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Tom Vitale and Valerie Bertinelli

Valerie Bertinelli, 50, and Tom Vitale, 48, who got engaged in March while vacationing in Italy, are “going to be a great married couple,” says Lane. They#39;re not married yet but Valerie Bertinelli and fiancé Tom Vitale are already in their honeymoon stage, a friend tells PEOPLE. “She#39;s happiest when they#39;re together,” the actress#39;s trainer, Christopher Lane, tells PEOPLE. “She#39;s thrilled to be with the man she loves.” “I don#39;t know if a whole lot is going to change. They sti

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