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Iran
In stark contrast to fate of Canadian Journalist -Two Iranian Filmmakers Freed in Iraq
2003-11-03
EFL Ap from Newsday
Two Iranian filmmakers returned home Monday after being held for four months by U.S.-led coalition forces in neighboring Iraq on suspicion of spying. Saeed Aboutaleb and Soheil Karimi, who work for Iran’s state-run television station, were detained by U.S. troops on July 1 in the southeastern Iraqi city of al-Kut when they were spotted filming a U.S. military base.
That will get you a trip to the cooler in the war zone.
They were released Monday from a prison in British-controlled southern Iraq where they have been held, Iran’s official Islamic Republic News Agency said. The arrests were met with anger in Iran, where officials complained to the Swiss ambassador to Tehran, who looks after U.S. interests in Iran, and warned Britain that its ties with Tehran would suffer if London did not help release them.
We’ll huff and we’ll puff and we’ll shut of rug exports.
A British Foreign Office spokesman said Monday that coalition authorities in Iraq were pleased that the Iranian men have been freed. "It was unfortunate that these two intelligence operatives journalists were caught up in the stringent security regime currently in place in Iraq," the unidentified spokesman said in a statement released by the British government. Washington broke diplomatic relations with Iran after militant students seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held 52 American hostages for 444 days.
Seems like we still can hold 51 people for 444 days before we are even.
Posted by:Super Hose

#1  Washington broke diplomatic relations with Iran after militant students seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held 52 American hostages for 444 days.
Does anyone still think they were students? Didn't think so.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2003-11-3 3:37:04 PM  

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