American arrested in Iran appealed to Biden
2023.01.16 01:16
American arrested in Iran appealed to Biden
By Ray Johnson
Budrigannews.com – On Monday, an Iranian American detained in Iran for more than seven years on unproven spying charges announced that he would begin a seven-day hunger strike and asked President Joe Biden to free him.
Seven years ago, Siamak Namazi wrote a letter to Biden in which she pleaded for the release of five other Americans in a prisoner exchange planned to coincide with the implementation of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
In a letter to Vice President Joe Biden that was distributed by his attorney, Jared Genser, Namazi, 51, stated, “When the Obama Administration unconscionably left me in peril and freed the other American citizens Iran held hostage on January 16, 2016, the U.S. Government promised my family to have me safely home within weeks.”
He continued, “Yet seven years and two presidents later, I remain imprisoned in Tehran’s infamous Evin prison.”
Namazi asked Biden to spend one minute each day for the next week thinking about the suffering of American detainees in Iran, such as the 67-year-old environmentalist and British national Morad Tahbaz and the 58-year-old businessman Emad Shargi.
After being detained on espionage-related charges that Washington rejected, Namazi’s father was allowed to leave Iran in October for medical treatment. He announced that he would be on a hunger strike for the same seven days.
He continued, “All I want, sir, is one minute of your days’ time for the next seven days to be devoted to thinking about the difficulties of the U.S. hostages in Iran.” “Just a single minute of your time for each year that I lost in Evin prison after the U.S. government could have saved me but didn’t,”
When asked for clarification, a spokesperson for the White House national security council stated that the government was dedicated to securing Namazi’s freedom.
The spokesperson stated, “We are working tirelessly to bring him home along with all U.S. citizens who are wrongfully detained in Iran.” It is outrageous that U.S. citizens are wrongfully held in Iran as political leverage.”
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