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2019-01-09 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

American man said held in Iran on unspecified charges

[IsraelTimes] A US military veteran is being held in Iran where he was visiting his girlfriend, a report says, posing a fresh issue in the two countries’ thorny relations.

Michael R. White, 46, from Imperial Beach, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, never boarded a return flight via Dubai in July, his mother tells The New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
The US State Department says it is "aware of reports" of the detention but declines details, citing privacy considerations.

"We have no higher priority than the safety and security of US citizens abroad," a State Department spokesperson says.

White’s mother, Joanne White, tells the Times that her son had visited Iran "five or six times" to see an Iranian woman described as his girlfriend. She says she learned from the State Department that he was imprisoned in Iran on unclear charges.

White would join at least three other US citizens, two of them of Iranian descent, in being detained in the holy manal-led country.

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#1 Visiting Iran strikes me as a poor decision.

Posted by Crash Dark Lord of the Veal Cutlets1879 2019-01-09 11:43|| 2019-01-09 11:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Need pictures of girlfriend.

Posted by Bman 2019-01-09 13:03|| 2019-01-09 13:03|| Front Page Top

#3 See here for pictures, Bman, courtesy of the New York Times.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-01-09 14:34|| 2019-01-09 14:34|| Front Page Top

#4 from Imperial Beach

I topped a canary for eloquence
And also, I fear, for irrelevance,
But on the third night,
At long last... "Mr. White,
Let us speak, if you like, of the elephants."

Posted by Dopey Henbane2218 2019-01-09 19:20|| 2019-01-09 19:20|| Front Page Top

#5 So... He never heard of a honeypot?

Posted by Rob Crawford 2019-01-09 20:34|| 2019-01-09 20:34|| Front Page Top

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