President Trump warned Friday that Iran could face "new and serious consequences" if it doesn't free U.S. citizens imprisoned in Iran.
"President Donald J. Trump and his administration are redoubling efforts to bring home all Americans unjustly detained abroad," the White House said in a statement. "The United States condemns hostage takers and nations that continue to take hostages and detain our citizens without just cause or due process. President Trump is prepared to impose new and serious consequences on Iran unless all unjustly imprisoned American citizens are released and returned." It did not detail what those consequences could be, however.
Trump specifically called for the release of American citizens Robert Levinson and Baquer and Siamak Namazi.
Levinson is a former FBI agent who disappeared from Iran's Kish Island in 2007.
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Levinson was probably a spy. He isn't coming back without some sort of trade. The other two were Iranian citizens, not Americans.
ReplyDeleteDual citizenship is a legal farce. You are one or you are the other. Pick one. If you are from iran, you live in iran, you have family in iran, you have business in iran, you are Iranian. You get what you get. Not my problem to worry about what iran does to iranians.
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Dual citizenship is a legal farce.
DeleteThy did have citizenship in both countries, though.
And the purpose of the visit of these citizens of U.S. was what ? How did these citizens become citizens ? These citizens have a world view of what sort ?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/19/world/asia/siamak-namazi-iran-prison.html?mcubz=0
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