{"id":85664,"date":"2019-03-17T09:14:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T13:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=85664"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:31:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:31:54","slug":"us-navy-vet-fighting-cancer-gets-10-year-prison-sentence-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=85664","title":{"rendered":"US Navy vet fighting cancer gets 10-year prison sentence in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/u-s-navy-vet-detained-in-iran-sentenced-to-10-years\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/AP19075649983804.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">A cancer-stricken U.S. Navy veteran from California who was first detained in\u00a0Iran\u00a0while visiting a girlfriend has been sentenced to 10 years in prison there on charges of insulting the country&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/report-verdict-issued-against-us-navy-veteran-held-in-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">supreme leader<\/a>\u00a0and posting a photo on social media, his lawyer said Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">U.S. State Department officials informed the family of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/american-navy-veteran-jailed-over-private-complaint-iran-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael White<\/a>\u00a0about the sentence after receiving the information from the Swiss government, which represents U.S. interests in Iran, said Mark Zaid, White&#8217;s attorney.<\/p>\n<p>White, 46, of Imperial City, Calif., was sentenced to two years in prison for insulting the country\u2019s top leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and 10 years for posting a private photo, Zaid said. It\u00a0appeared the sentences were to run concurrently, the lawyer said, according to the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>White served in the Navy for 13 years and is believed to be the first American detained in Iran since President Trump took office. White&#8217;s family told the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/15\/world\/middleeast\/iran-us-navy-vet-sentence.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">paper<\/a>\u00a0he had traveled to Iran to visit a woman he had met online.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A Navy veteran should know better than to travel to Iran for any reason&#8230;even if he is from California.\u00a0 I feel bad that the man has cancer and will probably die there but if you play stupid games you win stupid prizes.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s bad enough when we have to risk the lives of warriors to rescue some naive\u00a0do-gooder, I can not muster enough interest to go after some clown that falls for a dating scam.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/u-s-navy-vet-detained-in-iran-sentenced-to-10-years\">US Navy vet fighting cancer gets 10-year prison sentence in Iran | Fox News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cancer-stricken U.S. Navy veteran from California who was first detained in\u00a0Iran\u00a0while visiting a girlfriend has &hellip; <a title=\"US Navy vet fighting cancer gets 10-year prison sentence in Iran\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=85664\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US Navy vet fighting cancer gets 10-year prison sentence in Iran<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":85665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308,5,226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran","category-politics","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85664","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\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}