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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Iran has released a captive U.S. Navy veteran, it was announced today.
Michael Pompeo, Secretary of State, sent the following statement in describing the release of the American:
We are bringing another American home. Michael White, a U.S. Navy veteran who has been wrongfully jailed in Iran for nearly two years, has been released. He is now on his way back to the United States, where we look forward to reuniting him with his family. I commend U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook for negotiating Mr. White’s release with the Iranians. I thank the Swiss government and the work of our diplomats for facilitating this successful diplomacy.
While we are pleased that Iran was constructive in this matter, there is more work to do. The United States will not rest until we bring every American detained in Iran and around the world back home to their loved ones. The United States continues to call for the release of U.S. citizens Baquer Namazi, Siamak Namazi, and Morad Tahbaz, who have been wrongfully detained in Iran for far too long, and to provide a full accounting of the fate of Robert Levinson.
According to NBS News, White “was detained in Iran in July 2018 after visiting a girlfriend there whom he had met online. White was sentenced to 13 years in prison after he was convicted of insulting the country’s top leader and displaying a private photo publicly.”
White was released and thanked President Trump for his release.
5 thoughts on “Iran releases captive U.S. Navy veteran”
He knew there are, and have been problems with Iran holding Americans, before he went there. Should have let them keep him for the 13 years.
He has already been wrung out like a sponge, for any knowledge that they want and he has, why do you think they let him go.
Imagine what the US had to give up to get this idiot out of Iran. Waste of whatever was traded.
Rachel Maddow tell you that? You don’t know any of that drivel.
I don’t watch or listen to Madcow. Ther has been problems with Iran holding Americans, since our embassy was stormed in the 80’s. Travel hasn’t been recommended there since before that. So, 40 years of history means I am following a talking head. Some of us can and do think for ourselves, unlike you.
I am capable of reading other accounts of what has happened to the “detainees” in Iran, how they are interrogated. They have had an ex-military person for 2 years, of course they wrung him out of all the information they could get.
There is no way in hell, they would let him go home, before there were sure they had it all, or he was going to snap all together.
You would give up everything you know to Iran in 24 hours, because it isn’t much.
Welcome Home, Michael White.