I’m guessing this is not a typical-sized “bail” in Iran.
When this young lady returns, the very least that she should do is to tape a message / PSA to all of the other “free spirit youths” about her experiences. Wandering the ill-defined borders of an active war zone is not a well-advised venture. Going it where one of the parties is a militantly anti-American Iran is even more ill-advised, i.e. STUPID!
JUST MORE CRAP FROM THE RAG-HEADS...THIS IS KIDNAP AND THE BAIL IS EXTORTION.
I would call it a ransom.
what were they doing there in the first place? And no way I believe someone went to the the most violent, war-torn area in the world “hiking” and accidently stumbled into Iran. There’s more going on here than we know.
This is what marines are for. Let’s have crash development of thorium nuclear power, lower our dependence on middle eastern, Venezuelan, and Mexican oil, close the borders so citizenship means something, and then use our military to protect our citizens internationally.
I would guess that the Iranians will tell her upon release, if she says anything that is not very positive about her imprisonment, how she was treated, her friends still there will be in great jeopardy.
There will be huge media clammer when she returns to America, she will have a hard decision to make, regarding talking about it. I think she is suppose to be marring one of the guys that she was with when they were captured.
The situation the regime is putting her in, is that bail is paid on the grounds that she will come back when they tell her to. They are still holding her boyfriend and friend as leverage if she gets the notion not to return. That puts psychological pressure on her - something the regime routinely does to Iranians, even those who don’t live in Iran anymore.
Who knows, the regime may decide to set bail for one or both of the others at a million dollars a piece and be done with it. Or they may be holding them for future bargaining chips. You never know what they might do.
The unpredictability of the regime is another form of daily psychological stress in Iran.
Apparently Iran is short of cash.
So, who is this guy? By any chance, was it Charles Mohammad de Tallibanrand?
we should immediately arrest the ambassador and all the consulate on grounds of extortion...
freeze the assets and convert their women.
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They should pay it - in JDAMs.
Did the gov send her there to hike?
If not she should be responsible for paying
her ransom money.
Let ‘em rot.. dummies for ever going there in the first place..
No Ransom.
From what I’ve heard of this girl, she’s not worth it.
Must be time to make a payment to the Russians for fueling the ol' reactor.
We will print the money instead of them. That’s all.
the word is not “bail”, it’s “bribe” Chicago style
I see the same positive response from this administration to a hostage crisis as another.