nevadamedic
07-18-2007, 09:46 PM
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Two detained Iranian-Americans were shown on state television Wednesday night in a program contending they tried to foment regime change in Iran with the support of the U.S. government.
The 50-minute program showed a montage of disparate quotes from Haleh Esfandiari and Kian Tajbakhsh combined to form what could be interpreted as incriminating statements, which their supporters and the U.S. government called illegitimate and coerced.
The scholars appeared alongside footage of anti-government protests in the former Soviet Union and of President Bush saying that the "untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our world."
Esfandiari, 67, appeared first, describing her activities as director of the Middle East program at the Washington-based Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She has been held largely incommunicado since May except for brief telephone conversations with her mother, whom she was visiting before her detention.
"The aim of the Iran program was to plan sessions of lectures," she said. "When people came to the U.S. for lectures, policy makers listened to their lectures ... and a network was formed."
It was not clear if the broadcast signaled any impending change in the cases of Esfandiari and Tajbakhsh, an urban planning consultant detained since mid-May.
British sailors detained for two weeks for allegedly entering Iranian waters were freed in April after appearing in videos in which they "admitted" trespassing. Other people have been jailed for long periods even after their purported confessions were broadcast.
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/07/18/iran.detainees.ap/index.html
How much more of this shit are we going to take from Iran. This is always their MO caputure innocent people make them get on tv ad admit lies, try them and have them executed. They didn't have the balls to go through with it all the way with the British soldiers because they knew they would be hit with everything the US and Britan had. Now they are gooing to do this with innocent US citizens, President Bush needs to do something immediatly. Even if we put a bigger US Navy pressence in that area they will know were not going to play with them anymore and might release these innocent people, and if they don't then we bomb the shit out of Iran and all of the terrorists they harbor and support.
The 50-minute program showed a montage of disparate quotes from Haleh Esfandiari and Kian Tajbakhsh combined to form what could be interpreted as incriminating statements, which their supporters and the U.S. government called illegitimate and coerced.
The scholars appeared alongside footage of anti-government protests in the former Soviet Union and of President Bush saying that the "untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our world."
Esfandiari, 67, appeared first, describing her activities as director of the Middle East program at the Washington-based Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She has been held largely incommunicado since May except for brief telephone conversations with her mother, whom she was visiting before her detention.
"The aim of the Iran program was to plan sessions of lectures," she said. "When people came to the U.S. for lectures, policy makers listened to their lectures ... and a network was formed."
It was not clear if the broadcast signaled any impending change in the cases of Esfandiari and Tajbakhsh, an urban planning consultant detained since mid-May.
British sailors detained for two weeks for allegedly entering Iranian waters were freed in April after appearing in videos in which they "admitted" trespassing. Other people have been jailed for long periods even after their purported confessions were broadcast.
Full Story.........
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/07/18/iran.detainees.ap/index.html
How much more of this shit are we going to take from Iran. This is always their MO caputure innocent people make them get on tv ad admit lies, try them and have them executed. They didn't have the balls to go through with it all the way with the British soldiers because they knew they would be hit with everything the US and Britan had. Now they are gooing to do this with innocent US citizens, President Bush needs to do something immediatly. Even if we put a bigger US Navy pressence in that area they will know were not going to play with them anymore and might release these innocent people, and if they don't then we bomb the shit out of Iran and all of the terrorists they harbor and support.