{"id":11457,"date":"2012-01-09T20:07:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T01:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=11457"},"modified":"2012-01-09T20:07:11","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T01:07:11","slug":"american-sentenced-to-death-in-iran-accused-of-spying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=11457","title":{"rendered":"American Sentenced To Death In Iran&#8211;Accused Of Spying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/home\/world-news\/article\/16145250\">Sky News<\/a>\u00a0reported today that Amir Mirzaei Hekmati was convicted of being a CIA spy and sentenced to death by an Iranian court. Mr. Hekmati is a former U. S. Marine. One report stated that he was carrying his military identification. Do we really believe that the CIA would send in a spy with military identification? Mr. Hekmati&#8217;s parents have stated that he was there to visit his grandparents. Mr. Hekmati holds dual citizenship in American and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The article at Sky News puts the arrest and conviction of Mr. Hekmati in context:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Three American hikers were jailed in Tehran on spying charges in 2009 after they were arrested along the Iran-Iraq border.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a title=\"Read this story\" href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/home\/world-news\/article\/16074728\" target=\"_blank\">Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, who spent more than two years in custody, were freed on a $1m bail deal last September.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a title=\"Read this story\" href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/home\/world-news\/article\/15727790\" target=\"_blank\">Their friend Sarah Shourd was released on bail in 2010.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Hekmati&#8217;s trial took place as Washington announced new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>In December, Barack Obama signed into law sanctions that will cut off from the US financial system financial institutions that work with Iran&#8217;s central bank.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Mr. Hekmati is the innocent player caught in a very nasty international chess game. Iran believes that Mr. Hekmati can be used as a hostage to prevent sanctions on Iran from being implemented. If that doesn&#8217;t work, they\u00a0can collect a tidy ransom. This is the kind of thing that happens when America has a weak President.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=5c35ae52-1a88-4ee2-aad5-9f2f3b1d151a\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sky News\u00a0reported today that Amir Mirzaei Hekmati was convicted of being a CIA spy and sentenced to death by an Iranian court. Mr. Hekmati is a former U. S. Marine. One report stated that he was carrying his military identification. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=11457\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1772,97,659,1770,246,1771,1441],"class_list":["post-11457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amir-mirzaei-hekmati","tag-barack-obama","tag-central-intelligence-agency","tag-hekmati","tag-iran","tag-sky-news","tag-tehran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11460,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11457\/revisions\/11460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}