Hostage taking in Iran: the pawns in a battle against US imperialism
The Guardian / David Wearing
30-Sep-2011 (one comment)

Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal would make no one's list of prime suspects as agents of US imperialism. The three Americans – detained by Iranian security services in July 2009 on espionage charges, now all released and reunited with their families – have a clear and very real commitment to opposing US foreign policy in the Middle East, asshown by their journalism.

 

Indeed, as Bauer noted in a statement upon his release:"No evidence was ever presented against us [by the Iranian authorities]. That is because there is no evidence." What then was the reason for the three being effectively taken hostage by the Iranian state? As far as Bauer is concerned, "the only explanation for our prolonged detention is the 32 years of ... >>>

Simorgh5555

Rubbish Guardian piece rationalising

by Simorgh5555 on Fri Sep 30, 2011 02:20 PM PDT

Even if the USA bends over backwards and pays in Iran in gold bullions to say sorry for its involvement for the 1953 coup some fool of a journalist will try to relativise acts of hostage and terror to events fifty years ago. This regime takes hostages, beats and murders regardless of whether its victims are American or Iranian. If the 1953 coup is the reason for hostage taking of innocent Americans then which event or catalyst explains the hundreds of thousands of Iranians murdered by this despicable regime? Which regime mass murders its people to the extent of the Islamic Republic?

The only reason the Islamic Republic takes hostages is because it is an unrepentant terrorist entity. It must be destroyed. Please don't give this regime reasons or cause for its vicious acts of terror.

Death to the Islamic Republic. Condemn it. Fight it. Destroy it.  



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