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1 Nov 2010

Guard Led 3 Americans Across Iran Border, Released Hiker Says

The three American hikers accused of espionage by Iran stepped off an unmarked dirt road - inadvertently crossing from Iraq into the Islamic republic - only because a border guard of unknown nationality gestured for them to approach, the lone hiker to be released said Sunday.
The three American hikers accused of espionage by Iran stepped off an unmarked dirt road - inadvertently crossing...
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26 Oct 2010

Why It is Vital to Speak Out for the US Hostages

I have never looked at the detention of the American hikers as anything but hostage-taking. Iran has had past experience with this: in the first years of the Islamic Republic, the Government brazenly broke international laws and held American diplomats and citizens. It is a strategy that has paid off in the past, and to the leaders in Tehran, it is a tried and tested method of getting back at their adversaries.
I have never looked at the detention of the American hikers as anything but hostage-taking. Iran has had past experience...
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25 Oct 2010

Report says Iran grabbed 3 U.S. hikers in Iraq

The three American hikers arrested by Iran last year were on the Iraqi side of the border, according to US military documents released on Friday by WikiLeaks, reported the New York Times. The internal US document highlights military grids where the group was detained, which the Times said were on the Iraqi side of the border. Two of the three - Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer - have been held in a Tehran jail for more than a year, and their female companion Sarah Shourd was released last month. All three, along with US authorities, have insisted they were not in Iranian territory.
The three American hikers arrested by Iran last year were on the Iraqi side of the border, according to US military...
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20 Oct 2010

Date Set for Hiker Trial in Iran

Two American hikers held in Iranian custody for nearly 15 months as well as a companion released in September who is now back in the United States will be tried on spying accusations Nov. 6, a lawyer for the three confirmed Wednesday.
Two American hikers held in Iranian custody for nearly 15 months as well as a companion released in September who is now...
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19 Oct 2010

Hikers held in Iran pass captivity mark

Two U.S. hikers in prison in Iran have been held as long as the U.S. Embassy hostages were during the presidency of Jimmy Carter, observers said. Monday marked the hiker s 444th day in custody, the same number of days the 52 American hostages taken by armed Iranian students who seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution in 1979 were held, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
Two U.S. hikers in prison in Iran have been held as long as the U.S. Embassy hostages were during the presidency of...
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1 Oct 2010

U.S. hikers’ trial in Iran set for November

The two Americans still jailed in Iran on charges of espionage and trespassing won't be tried for at least five more weeks, their lawyer told The Times on Thursday.  Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal are due to appear before Judge Abolqasem Salavati on Nov. 6, the attorney said. The judge has handled many high-profile trials, especially since the political unrest that followed the 2009 presidential election, and has been dubbed the "hanging judge" by opposition and human rights activists. Most recently he sentenced Iranian Canadian blogger Hossein Derakhshan to 19 1/2 years in prison.
The two Americans still jailed in Iran on charges of espionage and trespassing won't be tried for at least five more...
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28 Sep 2010

Iran Indicates Oman is Seeking Release of 2 US Men

Iran on Tuesday offered the first official indication that Oman is playing a role in trying to secure the release of two American men imprisoned for more than a year. The remarks by foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast come after a newspaper reported that an Omani delegation was expected to visit Iran and hoped to take the detainees home with it.
Iran on Tuesday offered the first official indication that Oman is playing a role in trying to secure the release of two...
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19 Sep 2010

Ahmadinejad Wants Release of Iranians Held in U.S.

In an interview broadcast Sunday morning with Christiane Amanpour on ABC's "This Week," Mr. Ahmadinejad said that the Iranian government "took a humanitarian measure and released one of the three individuals who entered our borders," so "I believe it would not be misplaced to ask that the U.S. government should make a humanitarian gesture and release the Iranians who were illegally arrested and detained here in the United States."
In an interview broadcast Sunday morning with Christiane Amanpour on ABC's "This Week," Mr. Ahmadinejad said that the...
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16 Sep 2010

Ahmadinejad with NBC News on Muslims , Zionists and Obama

President Ahmadinejad is off to the United Nations for his annual presentation to the General Assembly, so that means another round of interviews with US television networks. It's a low-risk strategy for Ahmadinejad, as the American interviewers do not usually bring more than two-dimensional questions, and this encounter with NBC News' Andrea Mitchell was no different. Rather than pushing the President on Iran's internal matters, Mitchell settled for a snapshot of the case of the three US hikers --- Ahmadinejad had released Sarah Shourd on "compassionate grounds" but was defiant over the continued imprisonment of Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal --- and got into a tangential discussion on the proposed Islamic cultural centre in New York and a general overview of President Obama and US politics. Ahmadinejad countered with assertions of Muslim goodwill (and thus his own) --- "Muslims do not hate Americans" --- while saying that a "Zionist minority" was limiting the President's options on US-Iranian relations.
President Ahmadinejad is off to the United Nations for his annual presentation to the General Assembly, so that means...
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14 Sep 2010

Iran frees U.S. hiker Sarah Shourd

TEHRAN - Iranian authorities have released Sarah Shourd, one of three Americans held for more than a year in Iran, her attorney confirmed Tuesday. "She is free," attorney Masoud Shafii said. "She is coming out of prison right now." The Tehran Public and Revolutionary Courts Web site reported that Shourd, held here since July 2009, was freed from prison "at the order of the case inspector and with the agreement of the Tehran Prosecutor." According to Iranian law, Shourd, 32, may leave Iran but is obliged to return for future court proceedings.
TEHRAN - Iranian authorities have released Sarah Shourd, one of three Americans held for more than a year in Iran, her...
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13 Sep 2010

Latest on Detained US Hiker Sarah Shourd

Masoud Shafii, the lawyer for the US detainees Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer, and Josh Fattal, has said he is upset at the delay in Shourd s release, declaring that her family s emotions are being abused . Shafii said, Put yourself in her mother s shoes. It s been more than year and she has no idea why her daughter was arrested and what will happen to her. The lawyer continued, "There's obviously a difference of opinion as to what to do within the government. Legally the prosecutor has the final say in this matter, but I ask you, has anything about their arrests and treatment been legal so far?"
Masoud Shafii, the lawyer for the US detainees Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer, and Josh Fattal, has said he is upset at the...
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13 Sep 2010

US will not pay bail for jailed hiker State Department

The US government will not pay prison bail for American hiker Sarah Shourd, who Iran says it will release on health grounds in exchange for 500,000 dollars, the State Department said Monday. "The United States government does not fund prisoner bail," State Department spokesman Phillip Crowley told reporters, reiterating the standard US policy. "We in the United States government would not be involved in that action, if that action were to be taken."
The US government will not pay prison bail for American hiker Sarah Shourd, who Iran says it will release on health...
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12 Sep 2010

Iran Willing to Release American Hiker on Bail

A senior Iranian prosecutor said Sunday that authorities will release a jailed American woman on $500,000 bail because of health problems, another sudden about-face by Iran in a case that has added to tension with the United States. The news came during a weekend of start-and-stop announcements about the release of Sarah Shourd, who was detained with two friends, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, along the Iran-Iraq border on July 31, 2009, and accused of spying.
A senior Iranian prosecutor said Sunday that authorities will release a jailed American woman on $500,000 bail because...
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24 Jul 2010

Detained US Hiker’s Mother ‘ Wish I Could Hear Her Voice’

In Rah-e-Sabz, Masih Alinejad interviews Nora Shourd, whose daughter Sarah was one of three US citizens detained by Iranian authorities last summer when they allegedly hiked across the Iraq-Iran border. Translation by Farzaneh Abdavinejad:
In Rah-e-Sabz, Masih Alinejad interviews Nora Shourd, whose daughter Sarah was one of three US citizens detained by...
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25 Jun 2010

US Hikers Were Seized in Iraq

Since their arrest last July by Iranian forces near the Iraq border, three Americans Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal and Sarah Shourd have been at the center of a high-stakes diplomatic struggle between Tehran and Washington. Iranian authorities have repeatedly accused the three of entering Iran to conduct espionage.
Since their arrest last July by Iranian forces near the Iraq border, three Americans Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal and Sarah...
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24 May 2010

2 Americans imprisoned in Iran plan to get married – NewsChannel 9 WSYR

Over the weekend, Iran's intelligence minister said Iran would be open to a prisoner swap if Washington makes a humanitarian gesture toward Iranians in U.S. custody similar to the one Iran made by permitting mothers' visit.
Over the weekend, Iran's intelligence minister said Iran would be open to a prisoner swap if Washington makes a...
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21 May 2010

Iraq frees 2 Iranian detainees

Reporting from Beirut and TehranTwo Iranians arrested by U.S. forces in neighboring Iraq were released Friday, a day after Iran allowed three young Americans detained in the Islamic Republic since last July to meet with their visiting mothers. Iraqi officials handed the detainees to Iran's embassy in Baghdad this morning, and they will leave for Iran as soon as possible, a report on the website of state-owned English-language Press TV said.
Reporting from Beirut and TehranTwo Iranians arrested by U.S. forces in neighboring Iraq were released Friday, a day...
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20 May 2010

Mothers ask Iran to free US hikers

The mothers of three US citizens held in Iran for 10 months amid spy accusations have called for their release as a "humanitarian gesture" following a reunion with their children. Iran detained Sarah Shourd, 31; Shane Bauer, 27; and Josh Fattal, 27 on July 31, accusing them of illegal border crossing, spying and having links to US intelligence.
The mothers of three US citizens held in Iran for 10 months amid spy accusations have called for their release as a...
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14 May 2010

Mousavi ‘Do American hikers’ mothers have more rights than Iranian mothers ‘

GVF -- A mother is a mother wherever she may be. She has a right to see her child, but the real question is whether the same privilege given to American women is given to Iranian mothers? Do they offer Iranian women, mother and sisters the same rights offered to American women?
GVF -- A mother is a mother wherever she may be. She has a right to see her child, but the real question is whether the...
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3 Feb 2010

Iran says detained U.S. hikers may be swapped

TEHRAN (Reuters) President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday three U.S. citizens detained in Iran and charged with spying may be swapped with jailed Iranians in the United States.
TEHRAN (Reuters) President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday three U.S. citizens detained in Iran and charged with...
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