Posted on 07/25/2007 1:00:07 PM PDT by Froufrou
Authorities arrested a number of Iranians allegedly connected to detained American scholars, the intelligence minister announced Wednesday, widening a sweep against what the government claims is a plot to overthrow the country's Islamic leadership. Iran claims that four detained Iranian-Americans — who include scholars and a journalist — were trying to set up a network of Iranians with the long-term goal of sparking a pro-democracy "velvet revolution" in the country. The families and employers of the four have denied the claims, and the detentions have become a new point of contention in stormy U.S.-Iranian relations, already tense over the violence in Iraq and over Iran's nuclear program. Wednesday's announcement was the first time authorities have reported arrests of Iranians in connection to the alleged plot — suggesting they were now moving against local figures they view as involved in the purported network. Intelligence Minister Gholam Hossein Ejehei did not say how many people were arrested, saying only they were believed connected to detained Americans Haleh Esfandiari and Kian Tajbakhsh.
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Guess those talks we had with Iran in Iraq didn’t work out.
Yeah, I guess not. I say we send all the Middle East sympathsizing scholars back home.
Sounds like a page out of Stalin’s note book.
Could we trade Ward Churchill for at least one of them?
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