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| Iran: U.S. Citizen Detained For 'Threatening National Security' |
| 2007-05-16 |
| (AKI) - Haleh Esfandiari, 67, one of the leading US authorities on Iran, has been formally charged with "threatening national security" by Iranian authorities who ordered her arrest last week. Esfandiari, whose husband is Shaul Bakhash, a well known journalist also of Iranian descent, is detained at Tehran's Evin prison. She is the third woman with double Iranian-American citizenship to be detained in Iran after journalist Parinaz Azima and an as yet unidentified woman. The Washington-based think tank Woodrow Wilson Centre for which Esfandiari works has said that the academic had been repeatedly questioned by intelligence officials. Esfandiari was visiting Tehran to see her 93-year-old mother. Many analysts in Iran believe the three women - who were all reportedly visiting Iran for family reasons - are being held in retaliation against the arrest last December by US forces in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil, in Kurdistan, of five Iranians whom Tehran claims are diplomats. The five are reportedly detained in Baghded on charges they were in Iraq to support Shiite insurgents. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Older, educated women are ALWAYS a threat to the national security of totalitarian regimes. Right on JQC. |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2007-05-16 12:32 |
| #4 The whole world should be united in being a threat to Iran's national security. If we are not, Iran will be a threat to the rest of the world as soon as they get a nuke capability which they are running as fast as they can to obtain. The mad mullahs are part a the culture of death that has to go. Iran's ruling power is like Adolph Hitler and Nazi Germany in its desire to dominate--even at the risk of destroying the country. This repressive theocracy cares nothing about the people of Iran. They believe world domination and subjugation of infidels is the manifest destiny prophesized in the Koran. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-05-16 11:12 |
| #3 ION, looks like KOMMERSANT wasn't far off the mark - RIAN.RU > MOUD:IRAN HAS INDUSTRIAL-SCALE ENRICHMENT. Moud's affirmed it - Radical Iran has possession of MARVIN MARTIAN'S EXPLOSIVE SPACE MODULATOR, NOT BUGS BUNNY. 3000 centrifuges now, another 8000 desired by EOY 2007 - enuff for Iran to produce one uranium-based bomb at a Perts-perceived nominal rate of one per yarn, exclusive of any centrifuges Iran may choose to buy, legally andor illegally. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-05-16 02:47 |
| #2 ION, looks like KOMMERSANT wasn't far off the mark - RIAN>RU > MOUD:IRAN HAS INDUSTRIAL-SCALE ENRICHMENT. Moud's affirmed it - Radical Iran has possession of MARVIN MARTIAN'S EXPLOSIVE SPACE MODULATOR, NOT BUGS BUNNY. 3000 centrifuges now, another 8000 desired by EOY 2007 - enuff for Iran to produce one uranium-based bomb at a Perts-perceived nominal rate of one per yarn, exclusive of any centrifuges Iran may choose to buy, legally andor illegally. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-05-16 02:47 |
| #1 A 67 year old female certainly sounds threatening. Maybe she was personally plotting the over throw of the mullochracy. |
| Posted by: Woozle Elmeter2970 2007-05-16 00:32 |