Iran: "All Jews jailed in Iran for spying for Israel freed"

Iranmania ^ | April 24 2003 | AFP

[knighthawk]

Ping

[katnip]

Alive?

[Southack]

Translation: We want to make it very unpopular among most of the planet's political class - for Israel to bomb our now functioning nuclear reactors...

[facedown]

They're not running scared. Really.

[dinok]

How nice of them...

Think that 250,000 infidel Great Satan troops had anything to do with the decision?

[SpyGuy]

Hmmm...what interesting timing.

[Jewels1091]

No, I think it was those big tanks they were driving and those big bombs they were dropping.....

[Riley]

In July 2000, a closed-door hardline revolutionary court sentenced 10 of the Jews and two of the Muslims to jail terms of between four and 13 years.

This whole deal smells funny. That's an awfully light sentence in Iran for somebody that they genuinely believe was spying for Israel. I wonder what the accused really did, if anything.

[Riley]

Translation: We want to make it very unpopular among most of the planet's political class - for Israel to bomb our now functioning nuclear reactors...

Probably spot-on.

[elbucko]

Somebody e-mail this to Jonathan Pollard.

[blam]

The 4th ID is right on the Iraq/Iran border, I read last night. They're looking for radical Shia's crossing over from Iran.

[SJackson]

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[TopQuark]

Iran's arch enemy Israel.

So, what did Israel do to Iran?

You'd think that after more than 500,000 dead in the war with Iraq, it is Iraq that would be viwed as enemy.

I guess, anti-Semticism takes precendence.

[Slings and Arrows]

I wonder what the accused really did, if anything.

They were Jews who had the misfortune to be living in Iran. That was crime eniugh.

[carbon14]

"Well...when extremist Iranians get the wacky Iraqi treatment, they become as tame as Bonzo"

[dighton]

That's an awfully light sentence in Iran for somebody that they genuinely believe was spying for Israel. I wonder what the accused really did, if anything.

At the Novosibrisk Transit Prison in 1945 they greeted the prisoners with a roll call based on cases. “So and so! Article 58-1a, twenty-five years!” The chief of the convoy guard was curious: “What did you get it for?” “For nothing at all.” “You’re lying. The sentence for nothing at all is ten years.”

-- The Gulag Archipelago.

[madison10]

Most likely the only thing they ever did to be imprisoned was call themselves "Jews."

[sheik yerbouty]

They must be shi'iting green...

[DBtoo]

Israel and Iran hate each other; there is no love lost on either side.