On the facts as presented, he was no longer on active duty, but he may have still been, say, an S1 or S2 Reservist.
We owe the mullahs a really bad day at the office.
He was an Iranian citizen in the U.S. Marines?
Call me cold-hearted but here goes:
I am second generation American on my father’s side (my mother was a member of The Mayflower Society) and his mother escaped Lithuania and immigrated to the USA. I know that somewhere over there I have relatives but I would never go over there for any reason and I would not do it even if it was my Grandmother.
As a matter of fact, I held not only the country of Russia but the entire USSR at risk when I was on those ICBM launch crews and would not have batted an eye if I vaporized Lithuania or any other of those countries.
My point is, why in the heck did this man go to such a hellhole as Iran even if it was his Grandmother? He should have been adult enough to understand the people who run that country are batsh!t crazy and would probably do something to him.