His father was a Red Army communications officer.

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This is the wavelength of the infra-red light normally used in optical communications.

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"Our teams have been deployed to the area for the first rapid assessment, but they have not reported back yet, " Hassan Esfandiar, head of communications for the Iranian Red Crescent, told CNN.

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Since this elaborate electronic hoax is an embarrassment to the university at a level, will athletic departments create red flag words and phrases that alert the school of illicit conversations and then monitor player electronic communications like cell phone and computer data?

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