[nuconvert]

Again, since no one has answered.......I think there were names mentioned in another article I read. But the Iranian gov't isn't confrming the identities. It's strange. It seems like one day they say they have people, and the next day they deny it. At least, that's how it seems to me.

[dixiechick2000]

That's how it has seemed to me, as well.

The one word that comes to my mind is "leverage".