Posted on 09/12/2010 4:17:08 AM PDT by quesney
TEHRAN, Iran – A senior Iranian prosecutor said Sunday that authorities will release a jailed American woman on $500,000 bail because of health problems, another sudden about-face by Iran in a case that has added to tension with the United States.
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Is this really a release? And did we just pay off a government in violation of our "no-negotiation" policy?
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I’m guessing this is not a typical-sized “bail” in Iran.
they have 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!
Don't they usually just stone women there?
JUST MORE CRAP FROM THE RAG-HEADS...THIS IS KIDNAP AND THE BAIL IS EXTORTION.
That would be fair. Just do it in a way that the next spoiled-brat 20 somethings pulling this kind of stunt don't get killed by those who capture them.
If she were my daughter, I'd want the ransom paid. And I'd want everyone else's sons and daughters out of the middle east. Let them figure it out without blowing each other up, if they can.
Not paying the ransom sounds fine when it's an on-paper decisions. But when it's real lives of loved ones, I just bet the most extreme hard-liners change their tune.
I would call it a ransom.
Yes, they have ‘bail’ in Iran and it’s exorbitant. This is a little higher than normal. But paying tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands is not out of the norm.
I didn’t expect she’d be released without the regime asking for $. (btw - it’s also common to bargain down your set bail)
Make sure the check is wrapped in tasty bacon.
Muslims have always lived by kidnapping and getting ransom for their captives from the West. Entire religious orders were founded in the Middle Ages to ransom them, with the monks often exchanging themselves for the captives, and IIRC, some 30,000 Western captives were liberated in Tripoli in the early 19th century.
In fact, it is thought that the revival of slavery in the West in the late middle ages came about through contacts with the Muslims by entrepreneurs, often Portuguese, who visited the Middle Eastern slave markets to buy back Christian captives being sold for slavery in the ME and Africa.
It is a ransom...we will pay for this idiot chile to be released and the Mullahs will get a hearty laugh
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.
agreed, I think though thats what seperates great people from just people, the ability to make the hard-line decision even if affects you personally.
Apparently Iran is short of cash.
“agreed, I think though thats what seperates great people from just people, the ability to make the hard-line decision even if affects you personally.”
Remember when America had such people?
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