{"id":28249,"date":"2012-01-09T13:25:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T17:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28249"},"modified":"2012-01-09T13:25:47","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T17:25:47","slug":"marine-to-be-executed-by-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28249","title":{"rendered":"Marine to be executed by Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few of you have sent us the link about Amir Mirza Hekmati, 28, dual citizen Iranian and a former Marine Farsi translator who served in Afghanistan. Apparently, he went to visit his grandmother in iran and got himself scooped up by the Iranian government and now he&#8217;s been <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/iran-sentences-iranian-u-man-death-spying-072628552.html\">convicted of being a spy for the CIA and sentenced to death;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If true, we strongly condemn such a verdict and will work with our partners to convey our condemnation to the Iranian government,&#8221; White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said.<\/p>\n<p>The two moves come at a time when new U.S. sanctions imposed over Iran&#8217;s nuclear program are causing real economic pain. Tehran has responded with threats to international shipping that have frightened oil markets. And a parliamentary election in two months is widening Iran&#8217;s internal political divisions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not that it&#8217;s his fault, but given the history of the Iran government towards Iranian-Americans and the gutlessness of this White House, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d go to Iran for any reason at this point. But, I&#8217;m pretty sure he won&#8217;t be killed, but that Iran will miraculously release him just before the November elections here. The Iranians realize what the stakes are in the upcoming elections and they&#8217;ve chosen their preferred candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few of you have sent us the link about Amir Mirza Hekmati, 28, dual citizen &hellip; <a title=\"Marine to be executed by Iran\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28249\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marine to be executed by Iran<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}