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2023-09-19 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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After US prisoner swap, a dozen Westerners remain captive in Iran
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[IsraelTimes] Rights groups say imprisonment of Western nationals is a ploy designed by regime to extract concessions from rival powers
A dozen Western passport holders remain detained in Iran, even after the release on Monday of five US citizens in a swap deal with Tehran.
Rights groups say those held are innocent of any crime and are being held as part of a deliberate policy of hostage-taking by Iran
 ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
to extract concessions from foreign governments.
Earlier, the five Americans including Siamak Namazi, a businessman held since 2015, were released by Tehran and were flying home via Doha. The deal also sees the release of five Iranians held by the United States and the unfreezing of Iranian funds totaling $6 billion by US ally South Korea.
Tehran insists all the foreigners held have been subject to proper judicial process. Activists fear there may be more cases, as governments usually advise families not to publicize arrests in the hope a solution can be found without publicity.
BRITANNIA
British-Iranian labor rights activist Mehran Raoof was arrested in October 2020, and is being held in solitary confinement, Amnesia Amnesty International says.
GERMANY
German-Iranian Nahid Taghavi, in her late 60s, was sentenced to 10 years and eight months in jail in August 2021, after being arrested at her Tehran apartment in October 2020. She is being held in Evin prison.
Jamshid Sharmahd, a German citizen, was captured by Iran in August 2020, while traveling through the UAE, according to his family. He was charged with terrorism over a lethal 2008 bombing. His family has denounced the accusations.
A US resident, he was sentenced to death in February, a verdict that has been upheld by the Supreme Court. His family fears he could be executed any day.
LA BELLE FRANCE
French teachers’ union official Cecile Kohler and her partner, Jacques Gay Paree, were detained in May 2022, while sightseeing in Iran. They are accused of spying.
Banking consultant Louis Arnaud was arrested in September 2022 while visiting Iran. Described as a passionate traveler, he is jugged
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
in Evin Prison in "extremely harsh" detention conditions, according to his parents.
Another French citizen is confirmed by Gay Paree to be held but that person’s identity has never been revealed.
French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah was released earlier this year, but has still been unable to leave the country.
AUSTRIA
Iran in June released two Austrian citizens held for several years, but a third Austrian, who has not been named, was sentenced earlier this year to seven and a half years in jail in Iran for spying, according to Vienna.
SWEDEN
Iranian academic Ahmadreza Djalali, a resident of Sweden, was arrested during a visit to Iran in April 2016, and sentenced to death in 2017, on charges of spying for Israel’s Mossad.
He was granted Swedish citizenship while in jail. His hanging was postponed, but his family says he remains on death row.
Habib Chaab, an Iranian-Swedish dissident, disappeared during a visit to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
in October 2020.
He turned up in Iran accused of being a leading figure in an Arab separatist group and of perpetrating kabooms. He was sentenced to death and executed on May 6, 2023.
Sweden and the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
this month said Johan Floderus, 33, who works for the EU diplomatic service, was arrested in April 2022 at Tehran’s airport, as he was returning home from a trip with friends.
His detention was not officially disclosed until it was first reported by the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
this September.
SPAIN
Spanish citizen and football fan Santiago Sanchez Cogedor has been in detention in Iran since October. He was arrested while trying to walk to Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
for the football World Cup.
UNITED STATES
According to Washington, the release of the five US citizens on Monday means there are no more US nationals detained in Iran.
However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate...
the family of Virginia-based Iranian Shahab Dalili, who was arrested in 2016 while visiting Tehran, has expressed dismay that the US resident was not included in the swap, as have the family of Jamshid Sharmahd.
Meanwhile,
...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising. And then he smelled the smoke...
former FBI agent Robert Levinson vanished in 2007 on a trip to Iran. The US has accused Iran of abducting and detaining him and being responsible for his "probable" death. 
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