Πηγή: PressTV
By Kourosh Ziabari
Wed Aug 24, 2011
Since July 31, 2009 when three American nationals were arrested by Iran's border police, the Western state-run media embraced the news with a great deal of controversy and hullabaloo. From the time when Bauer and Fattal along with their companion Sarah Shroud were detained in Iran, the media in the West staged a complicated and intricate propaganda project to accuse Iran of violating the human rights and mistreating the prisoners.
On September 14, 2010, Sarah Shroud was released as a humanitarian gesture so that the propaganda machinery of the West might realize that Iran has always respected the human rights, especially the rights of the women; however, they never ceased their poisonous advertisement and continued to direct baseless accusations against Iran.
The recurrent theme in the misleading and deceptive reports and articles of the Western TV stations and newspapers was that the three Americans arrested in Iran were only "hikers" who had gone to Sulaymaniyah in Iraq for mountain climbing. Interestingly, they never posed the question that why did the three American "hikers" crossed into the Iranian border if they really wanted to visit the heights of Sulaymaniyah!
The Western media repeatedly stated that the mountains which the three Americans were climbing were unmarked so they could not realize that they had slipped into the Iranian border. Again, they never asked themselves the question that why should there be Iranian guards and police officers deployed at a far-fetched, unmarked territory to which few people go for hiking and mountain climbing!
Another interesting point in the coverage of the detainment of American nationals by the Western media was that they persistently emphasized in their reports that Iran and the U.S. don't have diplomatic relations with each other and the "harsh sentence" of 8 years in prison for each of the U.S. "hikers" is a result of "Iran's hostility" to the U.S. They again deliberately neglected the fact that Iran has always openly received U.S. professionals, academicians, tourists and sportsmen and treated them as compassionately as possible.
Iran's intelligence minister Heydar Moslehi has said that the two American nationals had cooperated with the U.S. intelligence agencies. The Western media blindly denied this statement and said that they were simply hikers. So, a big question pops into mind: why did they select an "unmarked" and apparently sensitive region for hiking? Why did they select the Iran-Iraq border for hiking? It was on the reports that they had resided in Iraq's Kurdistan region for a long time. If that's true, then they should have been completely familiar with the region and known that it might be dangerous for them to hike there. This was another point which the Western media overlooked.
However, aside from all these questions, the Western mainstream, state-run media which are accustomed to propagating fabrications and lies haven't ever mentioned the fact that 10 Iranian nationals are spending their life in the prisons of the U.S. and there are many other Iranians jailed in the U.S. whose destiny is unclear to the Iranian people and government.
According to a Press TV report, these prisoners include businessman Mohsen Afrasiabi, electrical engineering student Majid Kakavand and Nasrollah Tajik, a former ambassador to Jordan, who were all abducted in Europe and sent to the U.S.
Baktash Fattahi, a U.S. resident, who was arrested in April 2009 in California and charged with attempting to export U.S.- made military aircraft parts to Iran and Amir Amirnazmi, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen who was arrested in February 2009 on charges of conducting business with Iranian companies under U.S. sanctions are among the other Iranian prisoners who are being held in the U.S. illegally.
The other Iranian prisoners in the U.S. include Amir Hossein Ardebili who was arrested in 2009 and has been sentenced by a Delaware court to five years in jail on charges of shipping U.S. military technology to Iran, Shahrzad Mir-Qolikhan and Hassan Saeed Keshari.
The Iranian media have recently reported that Shahrzad Mir-Qolikhan was severely tortured by the American forces while in custody.
Lo and behold, even if we rule out the fact that the American nationals detained in Iran were spies, they illegally entered the Iranian territory and should be held accountable for this crime.
In the United States, illegal entry is a serious crime and those who are convicted of illegally entering the U.S. borders will be sentenced to several years in prison. A South Korean news agency reported on September 28, 2001 that 34 Korean citizens were arrested collectively for unlawfully trying to cross the U.S. borders.
On May 20, 2005, the Xinhua news agency reported that the Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles who formerly worked with CIA was arrested by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for trying to illegally enter the U.S.
There are several other cases of detention and imprisonment for those who have tried to illegally crossing into the borders of the United States. What's astonishing is that the U.S. mainstream media have never gave coverage to such incidents!
After all, what is clear is that the Western media are not inclined to put an end to their antagonism with Iran their misinformation operation against Iran seems to be endless. The case of the three American spies arrested in Iran was only an excuse for them to spawn controversy and stage black propaganda.
On September 14, 2010, Sarah Shroud was released as a humanitarian gesture so that the propaganda machinery of the West might realize that Iran has always respected the human rights, especially the rights of the women; however, they never ceased their poisonous advertisement and continued to direct baseless accusations against Iran.
The recurrent theme in the misleading and deceptive reports and articles of the Western TV stations and newspapers was that the three Americans arrested in Iran were only "hikers" who had gone to Sulaymaniyah in Iraq for mountain climbing. Interestingly, they never posed the question that why did the three American "hikers" crossed into the Iranian border if they really wanted to visit the heights of Sulaymaniyah!
The Western media repeatedly stated that the mountains which the three Americans were climbing were unmarked so they could not realize that they had slipped into the Iranian border. Again, they never asked themselves the question that why should there be Iranian guards and police officers deployed at a far-fetched, unmarked territory to which few people go for hiking and mountain climbing!
Another interesting point in the coverage of the detainment of American nationals by the Western media was that they persistently emphasized in their reports that Iran and the U.S. don't have diplomatic relations with each other and the "harsh sentence" of 8 years in prison for each of the U.S. "hikers" is a result of "Iran's hostility" to the U.S. They again deliberately neglected the fact that Iran has always openly received U.S. professionals, academicians, tourists and sportsmen and treated them as compassionately as possible.
Iran's intelligence minister Heydar Moslehi has said that the two American nationals had cooperated with the U.S. intelligence agencies. The Western media blindly denied this statement and said that they were simply hikers. So, a big question pops into mind: why did they select an "unmarked" and apparently sensitive region for hiking? Why did they select the Iran-Iraq border for hiking? It was on the reports that they had resided in Iraq's Kurdistan region for a long time. If that's true, then they should have been completely familiar with the region and known that it might be dangerous for them to hike there. This was another point which the Western media overlooked.
However, aside from all these questions, the Western mainstream, state-run media which are accustomed to propagating fabrications and lies haven't ever mentioned the fact that 10 Iranian nationals are spending their life in the prisons of the U.S. and there are many other Iranians jailed in the U.S. whose destiny is unclear to the Iranian people and government.
According to a Press TV report, these prisoners include businessman Mohsen Afrasiabi, electrical engineering student Majid Kakavand and Nasrollah Tajik, a former ambassador to Jordan, who were all abducted in Europe and sent to the U.S.
Baktash Fattahi, a U.S. resident, who was arrested in April 2009 in California and charged with attempting to export U.S.- made military aircraft parts to Iran and Amir Amirnazmi, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen who was arrested in February 2009 on charges of conducting business with Iranian companies under U.S. sanctions are among the other Iranian prisoners who are being held in the U.S. illegally.
The other Iranian prisoners in the U.S. include Amir Hossein Ardebili who was arrested in 2009 and has been sentenced by a Delaware court to five years in jail on charges of shipping U.S. military technology to Iran, Shahrzad Mir-Qolikhan and Hassan Saeed Keshari.
The Iranian media have recently reported that Shahrzad Mir-Qolikhan was severely tortured by the American forces while in custody.
Lo and behold, even if we rule out the fact that the American nationals detained in Iran were spies, they illegally entered the Iranian territory and should be held accountable for this crime.
In the United States, illegal entry is a serious crime and those who are convicted of illegally entering the U.S. borders will be sentenced to several years in prison. A South Korean news agency reported on September 28, 2001 that 34 Korean citizens were arrested collectively for unlawfully trying to cross the U.S. borders.
On May 20, 2005, the Xinhua news agency reported that the Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles who formerly worked with CIA was arrested by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for trying to illegally enter the U.S.
There are several other cases of detention and imprisonment for those who have tried to illegally crossing into the borders of the United States. What's astonishing is that the U.S. mainstream media have never gave coverage to such incidents!
After all, what is clear is that the Western media are not inclined to put an end to their antagonism with Iran their misinformation operation against Iran seems to be endless. The case of the three American spies arrested in Iran was only an excuse for them to spawn controversy and stage black propaganda.
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