Navy Vet Michael Vet Michael White FREED From Iranian Prison

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Thank you, President Trump. White’s release was part of an agreement involving an Iranian-American doctor prosecuted by the Justice Department, and followed months of quiet negotiations over prisoners.

Iran frees US Navy veteran Michael White after two years in custody

  • White is on his way home as part of a deal to free an Iranian-American doctor who was prosecuted in the US
  • ‘I am blessed to announce that the nightmare is over, and my son is safely in American custody,’ his mother says

    The US special envoy for Iran, Brian Hook, flew to Zurich with a doctor to meet freed detainee Michael White and will accompany White to the United States aboard an American plane, the officials said.

    White’s release was part of an agreement involving an Iranian-American doctor prosecuted by the Justice Department, and followed months of quiet negotiations over prisoners. The two countries are at bitter odds over US penalties imposed after President

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    “I am blessed to announce that the nightmare is over, and my son is safely in American custody and on his way home,” White’s mother, Joanne White, said in a statement. She thanked the State Department and Bill Richardson, a former US ambassador to the United Nations and one-time New Mexico governor, for raising her son’s case with the Iranians.

    White “is on a Swiss plane that just left Iranian Airspace. We expect him to be home with his family in America very soon,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

    Richardson, who met with Iran’s foreign minister and ambassador to the UN about the case, said in a statement that the “release should have and could have been done earlier, but I am glad and relieved that Mike is on his way home to get treated.”

    Iran Frees U.S. Navy Vet after Two Years in Prison

    By Zachary Evans, National Review, June 4, 2020:

    A U.S. Navy veteran held in Iran for the past two years has been freed.

    Michael White, 48, was detained in July 2018 after traveling to Iran to see a woman he had met online and fell in love with. White was sentenced to 10 years in prison in March 2019, in part for insulting Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

    In March 2020 White was hospitalized with coronavirus symptoms and was furloughed along with other prisoners after the pathogen swept through Iranian jails. White’s release to the U.S. is part of a prisoner swap the details of which will be released on Thursday, U.S. officials told the Associated Press.

    “I am blessed to announce that the nightmare is over, and my son is safely in American custody and on his way home,” White’s mother Joanne said in a statement. “I am incredibly grateful to the Administration, especially the team at the State Department for their work on Michael’s case.”
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    The Navy veteran was on a Swiss government plane to Zurich as of Thursday morning, and from there he will be flown to the U.S. with the Trump administration’s special envoy to Iran Brian Hook. Switzerland maintains an embassy in Tehran and often acts as a go-between for negotiations between Iran and the U.S.

    There are currently at least three other American citizens held in Iran.

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patd
patd
3 years ago

If you travel to a muslim or communist controlled country or area then you aren’t that bright. I’m tired of the USA having to make deals to get dumbazz Americans back to America!!!!

spfoam1
spfoam1
3 years ago
Reply to  patd

I agree he is a dumbazz. So are a lot of US citizens.

It’s nice to know that the USA will work to free a dumbazz from a place like Iran. He is a US citizen, dumbazz or not. I have to wonder if he was lured for the purpose of a swap.

I bet he won’t do that again…

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  spfoam1

He has redefined hard up.

spfoam1
spfoam1
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

It’s like pre-captivity Stockholm syndrome.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Who in hell would want to hook up with a muslimah? Furthermore, I had thought it was haram for a muslimah to hook up w/a kafir. Could it have been a setup from the get-go?
I wouldn’t walk across the street to meet a muslimah much less travel on my own dime to her muslum sh!tehole state.

dad1927
dad1927
3 years ago

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dad1927
dad1927
3 years ago
Reply to  dad1927

i want date too

dad1927
dad1927
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

comment image hard to get a date

volksnut
volksnut
3 years ago
Reply to  patd

Being an American does’nt guarantee a whole lotta common sense – But basically – yeah…Look at what the rats have been able to pull off – That pretty much sums up the state of good solid reasoning these days in this country

old white guy
old white guy
3 years ago

Gee, I like the mask. Putz.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  old white guy

Does he have a fetsh for covered up women?
What’s with this guy?

Bonnie Pupowner
Bonnie Pupowner
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Dumb as a box of rocks.
We didn’t trade for terrorist superstars though.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

That’s wonderful news!

Who was swapped for Michael White’s release?
Isn’t Iran off limits for travel?

dad1927
dad1927
3 years ago

YOU CANNOT GO WITH A MUSLIM unless you convert. see?

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago
Reply to  dad1927

What about Anthony Weiner (Huma Aabedin’s beard)? Did he convert or was his marriage a marriage at all?

dad1927
dad1927
3 years ago

political appointment by hillarycomment image

dad1927
dad1927
3 years ago

The realtionship between Hell. and Abs…

AZ gal
AZ gal
3 years ago

What an idiot to “fall in love with an Iranian online”. Not like there aren’t any women here! If he couldn’t find a woman here, something is wrong with him. Leave him there & bring back a worthy American with half a brain!

AZ gal
AZ gal
3 years ago

Maybe she was another one of those scammers, for $$. Either way, he’s a total idiot. Especially since he was in the military, he should have known better. Like that idiot who walked to the Taliban.

usn
usn
3 years ago

His mother must be a democrat because she made no mention of thanking Trump himself just the admen.

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