Iran Sentences Alleged CIA Spy To Death
Just when we thought we may go through one full day without some escalation out of the greater Iran region, here comes the WSJ to inform us that Iran has decided to shove the MAD ball right back into America's court with news that Iran has sentenced alleged CIA spy, 28 year old Amir Hekmati, to death. "Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, born in Arizona to Iranian parents and raised in Michigan, was accused of Moharebe--or being the enemy of God-- the highest crime in Islamic law that carries the death penalty in countries where Sharia law is practiced. The prosecutor's indictment against Hekmati, read in court, said he was guilty of waging a war against God, spying on the Islamic Republic of Iran for the CIA and working for an enemy government, according to Iranian media reports." Needless to say, "the case, the first recent death penalty for an American in Iran, will likely increase tensions between the U.S. and Iran. The State Department has called for Iran to release Hekmati and give the Swiss embassy--the protectorate of U.S. interest in Iran--access to him." It appears Iran has decided not to proceed with those particular instructions.
More from the WSJ:
Fars News Agency, a semi-official service affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards Corps, quoted Hekmati in court as saying, "I was fooled by the CIA to come to Iran and infiltrate the intelligence agencies and become a source for the CIA. But I personally didn't intend to harm Iran, I love Iran and wanted to live here and not return to the U.S."
It is not clear if the quotes attributed to Hekmati are accurate or if he made the comments under duress in a forced confession. The court hearing was behind closed doors.
Hekmati is a former U.S. Marine who served from 2001-2005 and subsequently worked as a contract translator for the U.S. Army in Afghanistan. At the time of his visit to Iran in August, he was working for a contractor company in Qatar, according to statements by his family.
The CIA has not commented on his case but his family has said that his visit to Iran in August 2011 was for personal reasons and denied that he received training or worked for the CIA.
"Amir has never had any affiliation with the CIA, and these allegations are untrue," said the family in a statement in December after his initial court hearing.
Judging by Brent's response today, especially with some rather dire predictions hitting the tape over the weekend, few believe this latest push will amount to much and is merely more posturing. Which it will be, until it isn't.
h/t London Dude Trader
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Spy........more like terrorist.
The CIA has been terrorizing Iran for decades.
How dare they, only Obama has the authority to execute a US Citizen!
wtf....these backwoods countrys with their fancy smancy trials and their fancy smancy verdicts....it would save them tons of time and energy if thy just let momar howsmydinerajad call his own plays like us...stupid camel jockeys....they are so 21st century...
live by scimitar, die by scimitar.
This is the moment of truth for Iranians:
· If they allow a CIA spy to go then they are POS and coward like Saddam and Qaddafi
· If they execute a CIA spy then they are serious and Israel/America must think twice before starting an aggression
A history note
All American flyers shut down over USSR in late 1940s and early 1950 were tortured and executed. So American knew that Stalin was serious and would not hesitate to nuke the USA in a case of a war.
This what Truman told to General MacArthur when the general suggested to use nukes in Korea.
Iran isn't going to let him go. They'll probably televise the beheading for maximum effect. What's more, the U.S. government probably won't try too hard to get his release, since his execution serves their purposes as well. I feel sorry for him and his family.
i bet he gets handled with more dignity than saddam and momar...the execution of saddam was the lowest point...hold on theirs a knock on the door...ill be ba....
from the article above:
while one can empathise with both Hekmati and his family, I think it's important to acknowledge he volunteered for the Marines, and then voluntarily took a contract job with the Army, and was working for a contractor company in Qatar - doing what exactly is unclear here - but Hekmati is making decisions for himself, and these are some consequences of those decisions.
politics, war, and sides - accountability, responsibility, truths.
lol I think this was a tad more eloquent then my response...
beheading is used by arabia. iran uses hanging from a construction crane.
For what? He knew what he was doing ...fuck him
you might enjoy reading this:
Iran Crisis: Something Fishy Contrived? Is That the Word I am Looking For?by Gordon Duff, Senior Editor
From the sound of it, the US stands ready to attack Iran any day now. Now for the funny part.
Two days ago, I took my wife down to get a replacement ID card. We go to our local Air Force Base, headquarters of the 180th Fighter Wing, more or less
the “tip of the spear” as for American air power.
This is our local boys, family to our town, this is “our” military. They are quietly home, alive and well and not relocating to the Middle East.
You can’t even count how many times they have been deployed but they aren’t deployed now.
I tend to not believe in the current crisis and the threatened attack. I have intelligence sources in most governments in the region, safely, the equal of the CIA, perhaps better. I am more “likeable” even on my grumpy days.
Back years ago, 9/11, the first thing I asked was “who makes money off this.”
By 2006, we had enough witnesses come forward we could prove our suspicions that, essentially, America’s government had fallen in 2000 and a cabal, the same that orchestrated the Afghanistan invasion, the Iraq invasion, the phony intelligence for both, those pulling the Bush/Blair “strings” planned and executed 9/11.
In the end, we have stood for years now ready to arrest Americans and Israelis and not one single Muslim. This would be the easiest criminal case in history.
After 11 years, covering up 9/11 is more Zionism than the “wailing wall” or bulldozing homes in the West Bank. Israel has screamed “we did it” even to the point where, on a personal basis, they don’t even deny it.
Only Julian Assange and, oh, I forgot, George Galloway deny it.
Now, George Galloway, the “spotted zebra” of the “left” in Britain is crying out against war in Iran. This is a guy who is still trying to sell the old 9/11 report, you know, the one with the plane that hit the Pentagon after we finally got ahold of the video of the missile?
more here http://www.degaray.com/?p=1925
If USA treated Israeli Spies and Infiltraitors the way Iran treats American spies there would be no Jews in America
Awwwwww poor baby. It's all the jooooooooooooosssssssssss fault. Everything. Sniff sniff, near a tissue?
Thankfully for you, the goyim fall for these grade school emotional manipulations. Devoid of reason, as mere chattel of the feild, to be managed as per the law handed to us chosen peple by God almighty, manipulate and deceive our way to heaven, or if not heaven, at least some earthly semblage of it in our own minds, the meaty savor of our superiority alone sufficing to offset the reality of endless war , terrorism, harsh speeches and reprehensible acts if commited towards another Jew. Ultimately though, even the subsentient cattle grow wary of the slaughterhouse, the endless sound of the guillotine and the smell of death, at which point another exodus will most likely occur. Oh America, let my people go! How you have abused us poor Jews! We where not able to obtain a decent living among all these lowly multitudes and they hated us without cause! Again! Oh America why hast thou hated us JOOOZ so much and made us all poor and deprived us all of even a slice of bread to comfort our suffering selves with and some murky creek water to wash it down with! Oh the abuse! All unearned of course!
Yawwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnn. Another cry me a river story. Spare me the drivel of blaming all of America's problems on female second grade schoolteachers and nurses as well as jewish accountants and dentists. Wow what an evil group conspiring to make you miserable. Yeah sure, the masses are coming down to the schools to yank out 24 year old Becky and stone her. The same with Ira the accountant at the office supply company. Oh yeah, these evil people really need eyes on the back of their heads in fear of you. You're too lazy and stupid to ever do anything about it so you better go out and buy more tinfoil to put on your head.
You know, maybe it's JUST NOT A GOOD IDEA for Iranian-Americans (or any Americans) to go to Iran... You know, just sayin'...
I would second that one. Especially ones who have served, and also acted as "contractors" in foreign theaters of war.
pods
A contractor is made at the stroke of a pen, before the check clears. Fancy that right place, wrong time.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy...
Fascist states with extra-national ambitions make risky vacation spots. Regardless of whether one has personal ties to the place. Why would of American lineage suject themselves subject themselves to the TSA and DHS apparatus any more than someone of Iranian lineage subject themselves to VEVAK or the other SAVAK offspring?
Pawns are the weakest creatures on the Chessboard...
Same time in EU (Poland)
Polish prosecutor 'shoots "himself" after news conference'http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16466522
Just after accusing his chiefs , and gov for making law and regulations just more , and more Orvellish. Another strange death alike incident in Poland
excuse my eng
There is more to this story than meets the eye.
The "spy" was developing video games laced with pro-U.S. propaganda paid for by the CIA.
http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/01/09/2023216/video-games-as-propaganda
He should've been spying for Israel inside the US, we would've made him Mayor of Chicago or given him his own news show.
.
I think Iran has gotten past that "alleged" part
Peacemonger says access to Swiss Embassy official does not require first releasing him...duh!!
well, if he is a spy, he's a crappy one. He'll be hearing about this during his yearly performance evaluation, I'm sure. And if he isn't a spy, he's a dumbshit for going to Iran in the first place.
what the hell was he doing there?
coordinating murders of innocent scientists... blowing up Iranian facilities... its not called terrorism if the US/Israel is responsible. In that case, its called promoting freedom. /s
how could You ... ???? /s
that's because we're the only country who's used the weapon "responsibly."
(responsibly means one of your pilots commits suicide)
NEWS FLASH
They **hate** us - killing scientists and meddling in their affairs does not make us allies.
CIA has a term for this - its called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowback_(intelligence)
Most people dont know why, or, have bought the american governments line that Iran "hates USA for our freedoms."
Ha!
Now pay attention: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_IIaw11Jlo
Sanctions do nothing but strengthen their hate for usa in general: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olejWdMzkVI
Treking and going for nature walks, as usual.
Like those idiots vacationing through Afghanistan who posted all of their planned routes through the mountains on Facebook and the web. The Taliban just went and intercepted them, lined them up and shot them.
Moronic generation does not seem to comprehend when you travel to/through a warzone you don't always come home like on Fear Factor, Survivorman, etc.
Well unless the government values you highly. Like when it sets up a new news show named nightline. To babble on and on and on about the iran hostages. Like the people need to be involved and worried about their stupid mistakes.
Jimmy Carter bitching and moaning about how americans don't trust their government.
Media blitz because Charles Manson is killing hollywood types. Trying desperately to figure out how to make as much money off it as possible. People saying things like society creates the criminals it deserves.
The world being run entirely by people convinced that truth and judgement can be created and manipulated in any way they want.
I think a lot of Americans (especially the young, wealthy, and privileged) have the viewpoint that the rest of world is like an exotic Disneyland and don't conceive that much of the developing world either (A) hates Americans or (B) views them as walking ATM's.
Funny, but also sad. Do we want to take bets on how many Americans believe those lame ass excuses?
The guy is a dual citizen of Iran and the US, and he was visting relatives, not spying.
But dont let facts get in the way of dumping your anti-Ammerican hate-shit all over the place.
Hey Santorum, shouldn't you be out campaigning?
yes, spying and oil are two areas in which the US has shown no interest. As our founders said, don't question your government, that's hateful and anti-american
Lol, two sarcastic responses that again ignore the facts of the matter.
You two are quick to judge a person based on your inaccurate impression circumstances of a specific person.
Thank God if I ever have to stand trial, it wont be by the likes of you two. I would prefer a rational jury.
He was a "student" who just happened to favor radical western philosophy of world empire and influence.
oh well.....i guess unlike in the US crime doesnt pay......
true... in the U.S. we get top politicians lobbying to release spies who stole and sold critical national defense data.... free pollard? he should hang too...
I suggest a happy meeting with some older CIA operatives. They'll be glad to spend some times with da famous israeli hero.
normal for treason, hang him already
Hang him? For their most severe crime they will probably come up with something worse than that. Like having a large hairy Iranian woman sit on his face until smothered to death.
Coffee sprayed on keyboard...thanks RP
Reminds me a bit of the 50s in America... The execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg... and of current day America of course... with the deathrows... It a sad and a mad world sometimes... And it is not very clear for me, somtimes, whos just mad and whos extremely mad.
Read this in ZH yesterday.
"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe"
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Goethe subscribed to the idea of benevolent dictatorships, so his distaste for humanity is not only elitist but also fascistic.
Quote him as an authority all you want, but I would much rather take the Vegas line on straight bets than the opinions of any 'experts': Vox Populi, Vox Dei.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSLlZh9yelk
may have stole a neighbor's goat? ya never know.
stranger things have happened, not to make light of
this particular individual's dire circumstance.
Not to worry, I hear Jimmy Carter is on the case. He has an excellent history with Iran from what I understand..................
...we have a new and improved POTUS, now with a Nobel Peace Prize and, "serious reservations."
All Praise the US President
putting himself so close to God he no longer requires any evdence or allows any questioning of his God-like decisions to remove anyone from society
no mere mortal must query the peanut sized brain, pickled in delusion, of our politicians
Democratic Govt: putting societies biggest dickheads at the top of the food chain for Millenium (self destruction 100% assured)
I cant wait until the neandersheeple experience a jackboot smashing their skull into the pavement, they cheered for it to happen to them! YEAAAYYY!!
His grandparents live there.
"His grandparents live there."
not for long.
Bullsh*t!
They can't indefinitely detain and summarily execute OUR citizens!
Only WE can indefinitely detain and summarily execute OUR citizens!!
bargaining chip, bitchez!
This is not going to end well.
we know how it (the American-Jew Foundation) ends ...
..well it never ends...
...see 80 years of failure in Palestine: Isreali State suppression, oppression and endless violence
Brilliant foreign policy, give those dumb-arsed State thugs a medal
Non-violence secured the world's most populous democratic country in Asia; having a A-class defense doesn't hurt, constantly tested by its immediate neighbors. Non-violence dissolves the anger only expressing the neuro-atomic frustration of non-communication.
Can we do this to Golman Sacks?
Iran calls Americans CIA agents, Americans call Iranians terrorists/freedom-haters/etc..
Same thing.
tension accomplished.
now we wait for the snap!
Yawn....the latest in the Tavistock War Propaganda Headlines.
Amerikans are getting sooooooo ANGRY (in Marvin the Martian voice)...they will be ready for the bombing very soon.
lol.
Marvin the martian for POTUS
might as well, same shit different talking head.
Quick!!!! Someone blame the CIA, George Bush, Israel the Mossad for forcing Iran to do this... Hurry!!! Hurry!!!! Be the first one so you get the 24 green up arrows from your fellow jew haters and pat yourself on the back.
Let's be clear here.
Luck does not equate to intelligence.
Taking advantage of other peoples good will makes you a low life
hustler. Of course, it's hard to see the forest for the trees.
Having lived your whole life looking out through a pinhole
it is difficult to understand how the river can go from flowing
north to flowing south so fast.
frostfan, enlighten me on this story please?
What did Sivan Kurzberg mean by that? Why were the Israelis detained on 9/11 subsequently released back to Israel? I know this is not honest investigation, merely blind hatred of "God's chosen people", but perhaps you could humor me with a response?
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/fiveisraelis.html
Mossad photo-documentation crew.
Enlighten you? Doubtful since you only believe what you want to. All you have are questions because you don't like the answers that are given so you want other ones. If you ask me what the weather is going to be tomorrow and I say cold and you call me a liar because you want it to be warm or if you want to define it as warm, then you will never accept the answer.
Why don't you enlighten me? How come people like you have made no supposed progress on what happened with your theories of 9/11. All that planning needed of supposed demolition and no witnesses? No receipts? No confessors? The best you can come up with is Israeli movers with box cutters? Did they jump from the plane after guiding it? The pictures on CNBC that morning weren't enough proof? Do you want me to believe there are no Israeli movers in the New York metro?
Comparing what the weather will be like tomorrow, and documented facts are a wee bit different. Although the news stories were later buried by the major networks, they are still archived and available to anyone (if you go through the effort of clicking a link).
Straw man tactics and false logic aren't working. Arguments such as, "soooo many people would have to be involved, THATS IMPOSSIBLE!", are OPINION. In the upper echelon of government everything is compartmentalized.
Witnesses? Barry Jennings comes to mind. He was inside WTC7 on 9/11, his testimony is a little hard to explain for deniers such as yourself. Like many others, he has since died. Can't tell you what from, for some reason no obituary or explanation was released.
http://jenningsmystery.com/
If you actually give a shit about the Mossad connection (which I don't think you do) take five minutes...
http://www.rense.com/general64/moss.htm
Then tell me, Urban Moving Systems Dominic Suter and Sivan Hurzberg were just there to "document" the event???
I clicked on both your links. When was the last time you clicked on them? Do you seriously consider either one of them a convincing argument? A dead guy and a New York based Israeli moving company. It's the same tired stuff over and over. You have no connections, nothing.
Seriously, thousands of Israelis were forewarned and years later no one says anything. Do you read anything about Israel. Those people blab everything and can't wait to screw themselves over giving up state secrets yet here we have nothing nothing nothing.
What's you opinion on the Army War College? Is it a community college for the delusional 9/11 truth community? Well listen to what it's former Head of Studies, and 10year Marine Corps. vet had to say about the subject.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVKGRB3cygg
What about the experts?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw-jzCfa4eQ
You have to realize you're shoveling shit against the tide. NDAA won't save the criminals, treating the truther community as domestic terrorists will backfire.
I've seen movies where vehicles "transform" into sentient AutoBots. King Kong was only 9" tall...Check yer premises.
If our Ilk adopted Christian principles, then we would not be so selfish and act in our interests against non Jews.
Our time is coming. We must migrate to Israel, before the gates are shut. This internet is connecting too many intelligent people.
Our cover is blown!
This is a somewhat tangential post.This is corporations are doing to this country.http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/08/leaked-memo-suggests-india-sought-backdoor-access-from-mobile-device-firms-to-spy-on-u-s/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29
For the promise of market share. The assholes went from not allowing access to military GPS system to demanding 1/4 of them had to have access to demanding that all of them have to have access as the Military has gone from funding through taxpayers to funding through corporations.
If you must use a cell phone demand a stupid candy bar phone. If you use a smartphone you are financing israel terrorist organizations. 80 percent of all cell phone billing is done by israel. When their drug dealers are being tracked they warn them to switch usage patterns to protect them from the REAL investigators in the world.
Mexico could NOT have been infiltrated and taken over by drug gangs without israeli cell phone companies help.
Did you even read the emails. They are counting on chinese cooperation based on GE giving them engine and avionics information while GE at home practices engineered obsolescence to sell you a washing machine every 5 years.
My washing machine is by Whirlpool. I guess I should be blaming Israel for my lack of cell coverage where I live? At least I won't be infiltrated by drug gangs. Even Google doesn't have adequate resolution to view my property.
Cellphone coverage is purely ground based. It's based on cell phone station poles for coverge. It really has nothing to do with satellites. You don't have cell phone coverage because it's too expenisve to provide the network and since the network is paying for a completely irrelevant satellite system is tied into data plan. Unless you can provide them 10 bucks a month for the cell phone service and 50 extra bucks a month to pay for the spying and gps satellite system they don't need and dont want you. Their primary mission is not providing a communications network to all citizens. The satellite modem or ground wire that you are using is doing that. The jews also run dish network which launches satellites to send TV programming they create to you.
And google has adequate resolution to view your property.
Exactly!!!!! Oh by the way, the warm weather in New York this weekend was due to a large secret Mossad convention being held there cuz u know they control the weather.
I also hear they placed a large bet on Denver on the moneyline.
You are given testimony from an arresting officer, the suspects own words, and you respond with utter bullshit. If you are a Zionist then I understand your interest in preserving the coverup. If not, you're one of the dumbest fucks I've come across
The Bloomberg News reported that put options on the airlines surged to the phenomenal high of 285 times their average.
Good Thing the SEC dropped that investigation, nothing fishy going on there!
Oh you have a Youtube confession. Guess what? Hitler still can't believe Eli Manning quarterbacked the Giants to the Super Bowl. Your need to take a clip in another language which you don't know and take it as gospel. Are you sure about that translation Hugh?