Iran To Try Americans Who Wandered Across The Iraqi Border

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One of the things we need to understand about political thugs is that they have little regard for the lives their thuggery impacts in a negative way.  Keeping that fact in mind, Iran has stated that it is going to put the three Americans who accidentally crossed into Iran from Iraq last summer on trial.  The three Americans are guilty of nothing more than a faulty sense of direction, but the Irani Foreign Minister has stated that they had "suspicious aims."  In November, they were accused of spying.

The details of the story are found at My Way News.  When the three were detained in July, one theory was that Iran would release them in a way that made it seem as if Iran were responding positively to the diplomatic overtures of the Obama Administration.  It seems, however, that there may have been a different motive for the detention of the three. 

According to the article:

"Raising concerns that Iran might be seeking to use them in a deal, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said during remarks about their case last month that the United States was holding several Iranian citizens.

"In particular, he drew a link between the case of the three Americans and the trial in the U.S. of Amir Hossein Ardebili, an Iranian who faces up to 140 years in prison after pleading guilty to plotting to ship sensitive U.S. military technology to Iran.

"According to court papers, Ardebili worked as a procurement agent for the Iranian government and acquired thousands of components, including military aircraft parts, night vision devices, communications equipment and Kevlar. U.S. federal authorities targeted him in 2004 after he contacted an undercover storefront set up in Philadelphia to investigate illegal arms trafficking."

Kidnapping has long been a political tool in the Middle East.  It was used extensively in Lebanon between 1982 and 1992.  Kidnapping was used to win concessions from the countries of the people kidnapped.  Iran has learned this lesson well.

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