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Iran is torturing a hostage it wants to exchange with a terrorist
Washington Examiner ^ | 3-24-21

Posted on 03/25/2021 1:17:39 PM PDT by nuconvert

Inside a tiny prison cell in Iran, an expert on disaster medicine and a citizen of Sweden named Ahmadreza Djalali is dying.

At least, what is left of him is dying. This innocent man has spent four months in solitary confinement on a daily ration of 100 grams of bread. His possessions consist of a thin blanket and a picture of his wife and their two children. A prison photo of Djalali resembles a survivor of Nazi concentration camps.

Djalali’s jailers have made it clear to his family that he will die unless Belgium agrees to swap him for Assadollah Assadi, a senior officer of Iran's civilian intelligence service. Assadi, who worked undercover as a diplomat at the Iranian Embassy in Vienna, served as the operational commander for a foiled plot to bomb a Paris rally by exiled Iranian opposition groups. The spy is serving 20 years in a Belgian prison for his role in that terrorist plot. If successful, the attack might have killed hundreds, including Americans such as Rudy Giuliani who were in attendance.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ahmadrezadjalali; assadollahassadi; austria; belgium; europeanunion; france; iran; mullahcracy; mullahworshiponfr; paris; putinsbuttboys; rudygiuliani; sweden; vienna; waronterror

1 posted on 03/25/2021 1:17:39 PM PDT by nuconvert
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To: nuconvert

It sounds to me like the terrorist diplomat needs to be put on a 100 gram diet as well.


2 posted on 03/25/2021 1:22:26 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Works for me


3 posted on 03/25/2021 1:26:54 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: nuconvert

President Trump would know how to deal with this.

Chances are, at this point, even if rescued, he’s going to die from starvation anyways.

There’s a point of no return when the body doesn’t get enough nutrition for long enough, so that even if you start to eat a full, nutritionally adequate diet, it’s too late.


4 posted on 03/25/2021 1:30:32 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: metmom

You are correct.

My heart grieves for him.


5 posted on 03/25/2021 1:37:15 PM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: nuconvert

There are several eventual solutions to this kind of behavior. We in the West have to realize that the Iranian culture has been a hostage taking culture for thousands of years. That’s how they operate. BTW, that is the largest danger of Iran getting nukes. It’s most likely that they will not deploy them in missiles. They will, instead, move them onto the target country either in pieces and assemble on site, or in shipping containers. They will surround them with barrels of dirty bomb chemicals, like, say, cobalt. This will not only make them far deadlier, but poison the land effectively forever. Let’s say they buried a remotely controlled bomb in the heart of the Midwest farm belt. Or, of course, cities. I’d say the probability of this happening is very high.

You might say that, well, if that happened, they’d be nuked. I don’t think that bothers them as much as, say, sane people. The former president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, began and ended every speech with a prayer for the return of the Mahdi*. That’s the Muslim equivalent of the Apocalypse.

Think back, the Iranians have held a former FBI agent until he died and that was recent. They have taken idiot westerners who hiked too close. They have held hostage ordinary citizens for political leverage.

The Western world needs a uniform response. No matter who the person is, the Western world needs to react in the strongest way that hurts the regime holding the prisoner. (I think there are different elements in the government that do not have any control over other elements. There are, for example, two different militaries. I suspect that they are under different commands and could, possibly, end up fighting each other. Their system is nothing like ours.)

Unfortunately, in this instance, the US is withdrawing from its position on the world stage. This is both good and bad. Frankly, as the American government I’d forbid travel to places like North Korea, China, Iran, and probably a host of other countries that have no rule of law.

* https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=102


6 posted on 03/25/2021 1:39:30 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: nuconvert

People are constantly moving to Iran. And then the torture for prisoners exchange happens. How stupid are these people to go to Iran. And yes I am very saddened that they are being destroyed by the evil Iran Gov. Yet they keep moving to Iran. Insanity is difficult to explain.


7 posted on 03/25/2021 1:40:19 PM PDT by Trumpet 1 (US Constitution is my guide.)
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To: nuconvert

They are barbarians. Who can doubt it?


8 posted on 03/25/2021 1:51:20 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: metmom

Came here to say that. Trump would have gotten him. Poor soul. Biden will probably reward Iran now.


9 posted on 03/25/2021 2:00:34 PM PDT by Obadiah
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To: nuconvert

Ask Ahmadreza Djalali his opinion of the way muzzies are treated in China


10 posted on 03/25/2021 4:44:14 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: nuconvert

I can’t get too excited at this when the US/UK are torturing Julian Assange in Belmarsh.
#FreeAssange


11 posted on 03/25/2021 4:50:41 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Conservative. Not a Neocon.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Erase an Iranian city each day until the "Swede" is released. Until he's released, it's Biden's fault.

12 posted on 03/26/2021 6:08:42 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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