Iran spying charges ‘pervert rule of law’
By Guy Dinmore in Washington and agencies
Iran charged three Iranian-American dual-national citizens with espionage and endangering national security on Tuesday, prompting Condoleezza Rice, US secretary of state, to brand the move “a perversion of the rule of law”.
The charges against an academic, Haleh Esfandiari, a social scientist, Kian Tajbakhsh, and a journalist, Parnaz Azima, came just a day after Iran and the US held their first talks on the security crisis in Iraq for the first time since the 2003 invasion.
Denying the three had any links with espionage, Ms Rice told reporters: “These are people who are there trying to make life better in Iran.”
But she said the arrests and Monday’s talks in Baghdad were “simply not linked”. The talks were an opportunity for the US to “press forward” on concerns about Iran’s engagement of activities that endangered US forces in Iraq, she said.
The three accused face the death penalty.
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Honestly, why is anyone shocked?!?
Iran does what it pleases, until someone/some nation is found that will no longer tolerate the bully and beat them soundly...
Talking, offers of sweet deals, pleading will work with Iran...They will understand only one thing and that is the iron fist of an all out military assault...
This must be eerily familiar to individuals old enough to have witnessed the lead up to World War II and how the world begged, pleaded, etc. with Adolph Hitler to no avail.
I believe this is the same type of situation and the world, in the long run, is going to pay a very heavy price for what it has done & not done to this date...
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