White House Finally Notices We Have Hostages in Iran

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You would think with all of John Kerry’s “secret” negotiations with Iran and Obama declaring peace in out time that these geniuses would have noticed there’s been an American held hostage in Iran since 2007. Apparently it slipped their mind. Until today.


Now they’re all over it.




Maybe next they’ll call for Saeed Abedini to also be released.
Saeed Abedini, an American citizen, has been imprisoned in Iran for more than a year for practicing Christianity. The talks over Iran’s nuclear program were seen by his family and those representing them as one of the most promising avenues yet for securing his release.

But the White House confirmed over the weekend that Abedini’s status was not on the table during those talks.

“It’s devastating,” the pastor’s wife Naghmeh Abedini told Fox News Radio.
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Abedini and Levinson aren’t the only ones.
Another case that has recently drawn public attention is that of Amir Hekmati, a U.S. Marine who was arrested in Iran in 2011 while visiting his grandmother.

He was detained on charges of spying for the CIA and sentenced to death. His family says the confession was coerced.
The FBI also reported that, as of this Tuesday, former FBI official Robert Levinson will become one of the longest-held Americans in history — he went missing after traveling to an island off Iran in March 2007; the U.S. government has since received indications he’s being held.
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Meanwhile, Obama kept up with his fundraising Monday night. Priorities.
 
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I'm pretty sure in any prisoner exchange deal Iran will be getting more back that were taken. Being FBI you would think Iran is the last place an American Intelligence Officer would go, for a vacation.
 
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Missing American in Iran was working for CIA. Family paid $2.5 million to keep quiet.








Details of the disappearance were described in documents obtained or reviewed by the AP, plus interviews over several years with dozens of current and former U.S. and foreign officials close to the search for Levinson, who is from Coral Springs, Fla. Nearly all spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the sensitive case.


There is no confirmation who captured Levinson or who may be holding him now. Although U.S. authorities have investigated possible involvement of drug traffickers or terrorists, most officials say they believe Iran either holds him or knows who does.


The AP first confirmed Levinson's CIA ties in 2010 and continued reporting to uncover more details. It agreed three times to delay publishing the story because the U.S. government said it was pursuing promising leads to get him home.


The AP is reporting the story now because, nearly seven years after his disappearance, those efforts have repeatedly come up empty. The government has not received any sign of life in nearly three years. Top U.S. officials, meanwhile, say his captors almost certainly already know about his CIA association.


There has been no hint of Levinson's whereabouts since his family received proof-of-life photos and a video in late 2010 and early 2011. That prompted a hopeful burst of diplomacy between the United States and Iran, but as time dragged on, promising leads dried up and the trail went cold.


Immediately after Levinson's disappearance in March 2007, the CIA acknowledged to Congress that Levinson had previously done contract work for the agency. But the agency had no current relationship with Levinson and there was no connection to Iran, the CIA assured lawmakers.






Missing American in Iran was on unapproved mission
 
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