Posted on Oct 18, 2016
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I was saddened to read that two USA citizens of Iranian descent have been arrested and now sentenced to 10 years in Jail. First the son was arrested last year and now his elderly father has been arrested on charges of cooperating with the United States, the Iranian judiciary’s official news website reported on Tuesday October 18, 2016.
Images: Iranian-American consultant Siamak Namazi (R) is pictured with his father Baquer Namazi in this undated family handout picture. Iranian authorities this week arrested the elderly father of an American jailed in Iran since October 2015, the man's family said on February 24, 2016. REUTERS/Handout via Reuters
"October 18, 2016
By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and Yeganeh Torbati
DUBAI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An Iranian court has sentenced an Iranian-American businessman and his elderly father to 10 years in prison on charges of cooperating with the United States, the Iranian judiciary’s official news website reported on Tuesday.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps detained Siamak Namazi, an Iranian-American businessman in his mid-40s, in October 2015, while he was visiting family in Tehran. The IRGC arrested his father, Baquer Namazi, a former UNICEF official in his early 80s, in February.
“Siamak Namazi and Mohammad Baquer Namazi have each been sentenced to 10 years prison … for cooperating with the hostile government of America,” Mizan website said, citing “an informed source”.
The U.S. State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the sentences.
Siamak Namazi was most recently working for Crescent Petroleum, an oil and gas company in the United Arab Emirates. He was chosen as a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum in 2007.
Baquer Namazi, a former Iranian provincial governor, served as UNICEF representative in Somalia, Kenya, Egypt and elsewhere, and for a time ran Hamyaran, an umbrella agency for Iranian non-governmental organizations.
He has a serious heart and other medical conditions requiring special medication, his wife wrote on Facebook in February."
Images: Iranian-American consultant Siamak Namazi (R) is pictured with his father Baquer Namazi in this undated family handout picture. Iranian authorities this week arrested the elderly father of an American jailed in Iran since October 2015, the man's family said on February 24, 2016. REUTERS/Handout via Reuters
"October 18, 2016
By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and Yeganeh Torbati
DUBAI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An Iranian court has sentenced an Iranian-American businessman and his elderly father to 10 years in prison on charges of cooperating with the United States, the Iranian judiciary’s official news website reported on Tuesday.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps detained Siamak Namazi, an Iranian-American businessman in his mid-40s, in October 2015, while he was visiting family in Tehran. The IRGC arrested his father, Baquer Namazi, a former UNICEF official in his early 80s, in February.
“Siamak Namazi and Mohammad Baquer Namazi have each been sentenced to 10 years prison … for cooperating with the hostile government of America,” Mizan website said, citing “an informed source”.
The U.S. State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the sentences.
Siamak Namazi was most recently working for Crescent Petroleum, an oil and gas company in the United Arab Emirates. He was chosen as a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum in 2007.
Baquer Namazi, a former Iranian provincial governor, served as UNICEF representative in Somalia, Kenya, Egypt and elsewhere, and for a time ran Hamyaran, an umbrella agency for Iranian non-governmental organizations.
He has a serious heart and other medical conditions requiring special medication, his wife wrote on Facebook in February."
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LTC Stephen F. So, is this a good example of the deal that our POTUS struck with Iran working in our favor or against us. Disappointing! Maybe there is no correlation to the deal or the money we've paid back, but this is more proof that this country can't be trusted. Just my 2 cents!
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Cpl Mark Curtis
Obama is placating our enemies with American dollars. Their ideology is completely antithetical to our ideology of freedom. They cannot be trusted. The whole treaty we signed with them isn't beneficial to America. It benefits Iran and their terrorism only... Sad that Americans are so apathetic to the missing American foreign policy.
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As soon as POTUS paid ransom for five or our people, Iran immediately restocked for more.
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