Posted on 10/23/2009 8:55:01 PM PDT by freedom44
Since his arrest last July -- he was accused of helping to plan the post-election uprisings -- Kian's family and friends have made countless appeals for clemency to the Iranian government, written letters to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad pleading his innocence, and signed dozens of petitions. All to no avail.
I've come now to realize that the regime probably thinks we're obtuse. Indeed, they know better than anyone that Kian is an innocent man. As the expression goes in Persian, "da'va sar-e een neest," i.e. that's not what this fight is about.
(Excerpt) Read more at foreignpolicy.com ...
Please note he is an American citizen.
Who cares? He got himself into this situation...let him get out of it himself.
He had no business over there interfering with their politics and now he hopes the U.S. will bail him out.
I’ve grown tired of these “do gooders” getting into a situation that common sense clearly told them that trouble was on the way, and then whining about how we should help them out.
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