Shane Bauer, Sarah
Shourd and Josh Fattal have been detained in Iran since July
31, 2009, when news reports say they accidentally crossed an
unmarked border during a hiking trip in the mountains of
Iraqi Kurdistan. The three young Americans, all graduates of
the University of California at Berkeley, are being held in
Evin Prison in Tehran. No charge against them has been
presented in a court of law and they have only be able to
contact their families once.
Comment
Never mind that the US government held 5 Iranian diplomats
for 2 1/2 years with no charges of any sort with even the
Iraqi and Kurdish regional governments demanding their
release. The USA thinks that Iran, surrounded by US armies
and armadas and threatened on a near daily basis with attack
"options" which include the nuclear option, is acting
irrationally here in holding three American "Hikers"? And
let's not forget that the US is a country whose major
politicians speak routinely of funding covert ops in Iran to
destabilize its government. Nope- Iran is being a bad
freedom hating country here in holding these poor Americans
for no logical or rational reason! But that doesn't even
begin to fathom the bottom of the hypocrisy barrel. Vashee106May-7
