Fourth American held on espionage charges
There are too many players in this one as well as circumstances that defy anything but speculation. Iran, the US, Iranian-American citizens, democracy funds and President Bush. Unless you have personal knowledge in this story, either side of the equation could be at fault. So is it the palatable Iran is crazy and doing a Guantanamo on American citizens or the US talked Iranian-Americans into trying to undermine the Iranian government and aided them through a special fund?
It is almost like the Iranians are taking their lead from the US. However they see this country must be their incentive for attempting to appear as a superpower. They accuse the US of doing whatever it wants and then do whatever they want as if in retaliation. What is this Dictatorship 101? Watch the big guys, see what they’re doing even if you don’t understand it and try to mimic them to look like a world power. I’m a superpower. Ya, that’s it. That’s the ticket.
Stanford Matthews
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Fourth American held on espionage charges
By David R. Sands
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published June 1, 2007
Iran has arrested a fourth Iranian-American as part of a crackdown on what it calls an international espionage ring, the State Department confirmed yesterday.Separately, the family and colleagues of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars analyst Haleh Esfandiari offered fresh details of her plight in a notorious Tehran prison, where she has been held since her May 8 arrest on unspecified charges of spying and “endangering national security through propaganda” against the Islamic republic.