Iran Sentences American To Death for Espionage

[Damocles]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...h/2012/01/09/gIQA3T8GlP_story.html?tid=pm_pop

TEHRAN — An Iranian court sentenced a Michigan man to death on espionage charges Monday, drawing an angry response from the Obama administration and driving up the temperature in an increasingly volatile feud between the two countries.

Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, a former U.S. Marine of Iranian descent, was handed a death sentence for a list of alleged crimes that included spying for the CIA, state media reported. U.S. officials said the charges were false and politically motivated, describing them as the latest in a series of provocations by Iran’s clerical rulers.

“We strongly condemn this verdict,” said Victoria Nuland, spokeswoman for the State Department.

Iranian authorities accused Hekmati, 28, of receiving special training at U.S. bases in Iraq and Afghanistan before being dispatched to Iran on a spy mission. Hekmati, who was born in Arizona and holds dual citizenship, was given 20 days to appeal the verdict.

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[Disillusioned]

Ok this is just finger pointing, there is no way to confirm American denials are true and there is no way to confirm Iranian allegations. And really what are we gonna say, "You caught our CIA informant please don't kill him?" In the world of espionage countries do not screw around and getting caught spying in any country is a short road to a bad place.

 

[Alias]

Ok this is just finger pointing, there is no way to confirm American denials are true and there is no way to confirm Iranian allegations. And really what are we gonna say, "You caught our CIA informant please don't kill him?" In the world of espionage countries do not screw around and getting caught spying in any country is a short road to a bad place.

Who says he's a CIA informant? Iranian Islamists. Clerics. They would have reason to use him for propaganda now, would they?

The 3 hikers were supposed to be CIA spies also according to the Islamist lying shitheads. Remember?

 

[Vader]

Who says he's a CIA informant? Iranian Islamists. Clerics. They would have reason to use him for propaganda now, would they?

The 3 hikers were supposed to be CIA spies also according to the Islamist lying shitheads. Remember?

Iran has long needed to be nuked. This is just more evidence that Iran's insane clerical moron squad is in need of a death ... and then burial in a casket filled with pigs blood.

 

[Phantasmal]

Iran has long needed to be nuked. This is just more evidence that Iran's insane clerical moron squad is in need of a death ... and then burial in a casket filled with pigs blood.

Dear goodness, you are a new type of Mormon experience for me.

 

[Alias]

Dear goodness, you are a new type of Mormon experience for me.

I think Islam is the problem here, not mormonism, you dumb cunt.

 

[Jarod]

Iran has long needed to be nuked. This is just more evidence that Iran's insane clerical moron squad is in need of a death ... and then burial in a casket filled with pigs blood.

How very Christian of you.