U.S. Confirms: Iran Imprisoned U.S. Navy Vet for Past Six Months

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Obama and the party of treason say, “Give ’em nukes!” The Democrats, and propaganda wing in the media side with these devout neanderthals.
Who can forget when the murdering mullahs kidnapped our soldiers and Obama slithering away, blaming some made-up, imaginary breach of protocol?

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Several Americans have been detained in Iran in recent years and Trump warned in 2017 that Tehran would face “new and serious consequences” unless all unjustly held U.S. citizens were freed.

Former FBI agent Robert Levinson disappeared while visiting Iran’s Kish Island in 2007. U.S. officials believe Levinson, who suffered from diabetes, died in captivity after meeting with an American-born Islamic militant. Iranian officials have repeatedly denied knowledge of his disappearance or whereabouts.

In October 2015, Siamak Namazi, a businessman in his mid-40s with dual U.S.-Iranian citizenship, was detained as he was visiting family in Tehran. His 82-year-old father, Baquer Namazi, was also arrested in February 2016 and later convicted of espionage charges which he denied.

Xiyue Wang, a Chinese-born U.S. citizen and graduate student from Princeton University, was arrested in Iran in 2016. He was sentenced to 10 years in jail on spying charges that he denied.

U.S. Confirms: Iran Imprisoned U.S. Navy Vet for Past Six Months

By Adam Kredo, WFB, January 8, 2019 8:08 am

AMMAN, Jordan—The Trump administration acknowledged that Iran has been imprisoning an American Navy member for the past six months, confirming recent press reports about the U.S. citizen who is believed to have been detained since July.

“We are aware of reports of the detention of a U.S. citizen in Iran,” a State Department spokesperson told the Washington Free Beacon on background. “We have no higher priority than the safety and security of U.S. citizens abroad.”

However, “due to privacy considerations, we have no additional information to provide at this time,” the official said.

The New York Times reported Monday that a Navy veteran identified as 46-year-old Michael White, a California resident, had been seized by Iranian authorities and sent to prison in late July while he was visiting an Iranian girlfriend.

White’s mother told the Times that her son never made it to his flight out of Iran.

Both the State and Homeland Security Departments are said to be aware of the situation, but are not providing details to the press.

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felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

It’s still painful to look at that picture …
Obama SHAMED our country and got off on it.
I hope there is a way to get our citizens out of Iran.

Jay Wizzy
Jay Wizzy
5 years ago

What more proof do we need that the Muhammadist tyranny must be replaced by a global ethical government.
Farakhan who in the Muhammadist tyranny in Iran chanted “Death to America” shortly after the detention of the Navy-member should be prosecuted for joining that Muhammadist terrorist organisation.
Same with Obama who send them cash & financed Egypt, Pakistan, Hamas & so on.

Ari
Ari
5 years ago

The Iranians have kidnapped many US citizens since the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. The State of Iran has been acting like a criminal state for decades. comment image BBC journalist Katty Kay

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago
Reply to  Ari

He must be one of the Leftist loons from caliphornia to think visiting iran is Great Idea !

Jihadis are aided by the dumb , ignorant Left/Liberal loons coming out of colleges/schools run by pro-jihadi left/liberal loons

And by the time they realise their stupidity they get assaulted , gang raped or murdered like this couple its too late for them https://tinyurl.com/yahupccy

Problem is they enable evil while not able to see evil thanks to pro-jihadi left/liberal indoctrination in schools/colleges where real history of islam and America is no longer taught.

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aemoreira1981
aemoreira1981
5 years ago
Reply to  Ari

Kidnapping is one thing. This isn’t that!

santashandler
santashandler
5 years ago

Trump should make the release of U.S. prisoners in Iran a number one priority. Even if it takes airstrikes, special ops teams, whatever. Just get them the hell out of there.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

I knew someone who was imprisoned in Iran for several years, it is amazing that he was able to get out eventually, but the experience was torturous for him.

aemoreira1981
aemoreira1981
5 years ago

He chose to visit Iran on his own? What a moron! Let him rot for his stupidity.

cylde
cylde
5 years ago

Really stupid guy going into a muslim country, the girlfriend was most likely a honey pot trap he met on the internet.

movingwaters
movingwaters
5 years ago
Reply to  cylde

Sure enough he was unwise. But the overwhelming majority of Iranian young people are not against the West at all and desire Western freedoms. I have heard that that many of them are very gracious people. I have also heard that the mosques are nearly empty though I have no way to confirm that. But the people know their religious/political leaders are very corrupt. Granted, it is always possible that she is working as some sort of spy for the government and did entrap him.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
5 years ago
Reply to  movingwaters

“But the overwhelming majority of Iranian young people are not against the West at all and desire Western freedoms” Please prove this statement, because the f’ing Iranian muslums I’ve met here in Caliphornia have been the all-too-typical deceitful muslum worms.

movingwaters
movingwaters
5 years ago

I was speaking of Iranians in Iran, 70% of whom are under the age of 35 and do not like living under tyranny. But I have also heard mention that there are a large number of none too upfront Iranians living in California. Not all of them, of course, but a large number. You probably known that as part of his plan to give Iran everything they could possibly want in the Kerry/Obama Iran deal, he brought in several thousand Iranians of dubious intent and put them in high and sensitive positions within the US. A common pathway for our traitors to destroy America from within is through these elusive public/private partnerships that force taxpayers to fund bad ideas. Another is through tax free foundations. All the elite wicked have tax free foundations out of which to fund their destruction of American values.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
5 years ago
Reply to  movingwaters

There’s large numbers of head-bag wearing Iranian Shitite mongrels in Southern Caliphornia and I don’t trust any of them regardless of age or delusions of being freedom loving.
Your proffered proof isn’t.

movingwaters
movingwaters
5 years ago

I repeat: I was never talking about Iranians in Southern California. I was talking about Iranians living in Iran. Many are having radical salvation experiences where their lives are being transformed by finding out the love of Christ. Many more are turning their backs on tyranny. Iran was a different, modern, and Western loving place before the 1979 Revolution. Since 1979 seems like yesterday to me I can well imagine that many people remember or have been told about when they were free. Sorry the truth does not comport with your belief that everything is black and white.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
5 years ago
Reply to  cylde

That’s exactly what I was thinking. I just hope the USN veteran didn’t have much access to classified information/intel.

Ban Islam
Ban Islam
5 years ago

I blame the mainstream media for hiding the truth from most American citizens about Islam. The truth is that Muslims hate Americans almost as much as they hate Jews. Of course not just Americans but all westerners esp. white people in general. I’ve known a few Muslims in private they will blame everything on America.

They’re stirred up into a frenzy by their Imams to hate the West and blame us for all their largely self-created problems. This is why they attacked the US on 9/11 among many other attacks.

Bottom line here is that no one from the West should ever set foot in any Islamic country. If our schools, media, govt educated people on the dangers of Islam then people would have the common sense to avoid visiting Muslim countries for any reason.

If we’re not going to invade these nations and convert them to secular-democracies then we should be expelling Muslims and stopping all travel and trade with the Muslim world or only allow business through strict well-protected channels.

No one is safe wherever Muslims gather in large numbers. They’ve made our own towns and cities a dangerous place for us now. This problem will only get worse the longer we ignore it.

Badger
Badger
5 years ago

Why do Iranians living in the West with dual American or British nationality keep their Iranian nationality? Apart from raising a question as to their commitment to their new homeland, it makes it much easier for the Iranians to take them hostage and much more difficult for the American or British governments to ensure their good treatment.

That’s leaving aside the fact that visiting muslim countries is risky in itself.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago

I know several creatures, originally from ireene, that live in this area. Why not round them up, imprison them in ireenian type prisons, subject them to ireenian type treatment, and simply look at it as tit for tat?
I’m all in favor. Can I make a citizen’s arrest?

Charlie
Charlie
5 years ago

How dumb do you have to be to go to a country like Iran voluntarily? And of all the women in the world you have to pick a moslem?

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