ElNono
06-04-2020, 11:42 PM
Detained U.S. Navy veteran freed by Iran as part of deal
Michael White was detained by Iranian authorities in 2018 while visiting a woman he had met online and fallen in love with.
A U.S. Navy veteran detained in Iran for nearly two years has been released and started making his way home as part of a prisoner deal involving an American-Iranian doctor prosecuted in the United States, U.S. officials said Thursday.
The U.S. special envoy for Iran, Brian Hook, flew to Zurich with a doctor to meet freed detainee Michael White of Imperial Beach, California. His mother said “the nightmare is over” now that her son is out of Iranian hands.
White’s release was part of an agreement involving a Florida-based doctor prosecuted by the Justice Department, and followed months of quiet negotiations. The two countries are at bitter odds over U.S. penalties imposed after President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the 2015 nuclear deal and over the killing by American forces of a top Iranian general in Iraq at the beginning of this year.
White was detained by Iranian authorities in July 2018 while visiting a woman he had met online and fallen in love with. He was convicted of insulting Iran’s supreme leader and posting private information online, and was sentenced to a decade in prison.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/04/navy-veteran-iran-301697
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This is why Iran can't catch a break, tbh... they always get caught negotiating with terror states...
Also, smh at this dude getting catfished to motherfucking Iran... wtf?
Michael White was detained by Iranian authorities in 2018 while visiting a woman he had met online and fallen in love with.
A U.S. Navy veteran detained in Iran for nearly two years has been released and started making his way home as part of a prisoner deal involving an American-Iranian doctor prosecuted in the United States, U.S. officials said Thursday.
The U.S. special envoy for Iran, Brian Hook, flew to Zurich with a doctor to meet freed detainee Michael White of Imperial Beach, California. His mother said “the nightmare is over” now that her son is out of Iranian hands.
White’s release was part of an agreement involving a Florida-based doctor prosecuted by the Justice Department, and followed months of quiet negotiations. The two countries are at bitter odds over U.S. penalties imposed after President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the 2015 nuclear deal and over the killing by American forces of a top Iranian general in Iraq at the beginning of this year.
White was detained by Iranian authorities in July 2018 while visiting a woman he had met online and fallen in love with. He was convicted of insulting Iran’s supreme leader and posting private information online, and was sentenced to a decade in prison.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/04/navy-veteran-iran-301697
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This is why Iran can't catch a break, tbh... they always get caught negotiating with terror states...
Also, smh at this dude getting catfished to motherfucking Iran... wtf?