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  • He looks Muslim so I have absolutely no problem with Irans decision.

  • WW2 well thats a little more than 60

    Cold war

    Korea

    Vietnam

    Desert storm

    Iraq

  • he is such a good looking young man. it would be a crime to end his life out of spite for the US. Iran should phone up his wife and child to see how they would feel about it?.

  • They're only digging their own hole if they execute him.

  • Iran leadership has a death wish and they may get what they wish for.

  • Dearh to americunt

  • The hikers were Jews and this guy is Persian so few people care about him... poor guy... those 3 fucktards were all over the media as much as Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony... hardly a word about this poor guy :(

  • Mmm.. What about replacing him for Musa Qasab (A.K.A Moshe Katzav, Eigth president of Israel, of Iranian ancestry, who was convicted of rape and doing his 7 years in prison in Israel now)? Just a thought.. :-).

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  • Some of you posters sound more adolescent than the Iranian

    government. By all means...go there, live and be well. Of course,

    should you be arrested as a spy and executed, don't expect anyone

    to give a rat's ass!

  • fuck the USA. United states of hypocriacy and lies

  • @KnightCrawler2 And you're from where? Obviously a

    country that allows free speech. By all means, please

    get yourself to Iran, North Korea. or some other country

    you consider "non-hypocritical." I'm sure they will welcome

    you with open arms!

  • muder our son wtf the guy is a fucking spie he got caught he dies

  • oh no spys in iran, no CIA hits and all these academics in Iran who are just being blown apart are all fiction, no one is doing it, must be the brand of car they drive over there!

    What a bunch of idiots you all are.

  • "His family says he is a political pawn. So does the US government."..waow I love this statement...

  • they say he was a contractor.thats another word for mercenary. as sad as this is, if thats true he was asking for it

  • 1 US fleet, 3 US Carriers , 2 Army bases near iran are combat ready. Go ahead! Your move iran.

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  • Maybe he is a spy.

  • @joyo17

    He does have all the credentials to be a spy.

  • What proof do they have that he's a spy.

  • @pics4roisin

    May be you should listen to the interview he gave.

    May being being a marine who is a mercenery who speaks 3 languages,

    May be the blowing up of iranian acadamics,

    maybe when your presidential hopefuls who say maximum covert operations and taking out their people, and all deniable.

    so this one was not strolling in kurdish mountains, but was visiting his grand mother, oh how good you americans are!

  • @iraaus NONE of those things prove he was a spy, you may not like that he was a marine, but that doesn't prove he was a spy.

  • @iraaus and maybe you're a lunatic...he's imprisoned

    but guilty of blowing up a nuclear scientist. Hey, brainbox,

    he ain't superman! Think rationally, for a change.

  • @Jeanne90275

    Oh so you think that is all that they are doing??

    Your own polititians say that they want to do this,

    That academic was the 5th that was hit

    if you don't want a war don't start one,

    Lunatic is the one who joins an enemy army and then goes and visits grandma!!

  • @iraaus Who is the "they" you keep referring to?

    I'm talking about 1 person...a "former" marine

    who taught language classes, and admitted all

    of this to the Iranians b/4 he went there. Would

    he tell all this if he were planning to spy on Iran?

    Iran is famous for forced confessions, so I don't

    think anyone should go there, period. And, who

    exactly wants a war with Iran? If the Iranians close

    the Strait of Hormuz, they're going to have a problem

    with the whole world, not just the U.S.

  • @Jeanne90275

    Who wants a war with Iran??

    Are you serious? listen to your politians and your congressman, Economic sanctions is a decleartion of war by the UN charter, a charter that USA has Signed, Iran has said that if USA is going to choke it from selling oil then no one will have it, it is USA that is the instigator of this, it has always been USA that looks for wars, look at you history, war after war, name me a nation that has had more wars than USA in the last 60 years!

  • @iraaus no no you look at you history and name me a nation. What a glorious nation it would be. Furthermore i believe you are a decleartion that no one will have. Oh yeah and the EU put sanctions on Iran and the Iranian government is still doing business with most of Asia and Russia. speaking of Russia, more wars than the us in the past 60 years. So you see everything you said was wrong. Feel free to try again after high school.

  • @wwwwwhusuk

    Can you even speak properly??

    Please name the the wars Russia has been in the last 60 years and i will tell you the American ones, ok!

    do we have a deal!

  • Please Iran don't do this! Amir Hekmati is a human being who has a family loves a dreadfully miss Amir. Please don't do this to another person that has family and people that love him. Please don't forget Amir Hekmati is a person just like you and like you wants to be with his family,

  • @megs97216 why? america would have simply made him disappear and torture him to death in gitmo without a trial if the shoe was on the other foot. brutal world we live in. sad.

  • That won't be a murder, that's what a traitor deserve, i wish they do it in public.

  • fuck him 

  • ENOUGH seriusly bomb Iran back to stoneage!!! ohh ups their still at that stage rofl! really hope for a war against this sick country

  • @Bomburk i hope you back up your tough talk by enlisting cos cheering for war behind a computer is very cowardly indeed

  • America doesn't care what happens to Muzzies in their own country.

  • Iran is in the state it is in because of the west. The coup in the 50's against an elected leader which secured rule for a dictator. That then lead the a revolution in 1979. All these assholes seem to forget the events of 2002 and 2003, and the consequences.

    The IAEA concluded that Iran has considered building nuclear weapons previously, but is not doing so at the moment.

    What was it that the Bush administration said? That Iraq was hiding wmd? Look a few years and you'll see how that turned out

  • I'm fundamentally against the use of death sentence.

    But this is an exeption this traitor gets what he deserves.

  • @Tautoulogic

    With all do respect, how do you know he was spying? What proof or evidence do you have? And who are you to place your judgement of death on another person? You criticize the west for such treachery, yet through your comment you share the same ideology. And to the rest of you, this world is manipulated with propaganda. Who the fuck can you believe anymore? It's a damn dream within a dream. When will we as a human race stand up for any form of injustice?

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  • The execution of this young man would play into the hands of the warmongers who need an excuse to ramp up the tensions and thereby sell more equipment to the countries in the region.The 'Hate Iran' factor would go throught the roof if he were murdered which is great for business.Peace is the only way to go.Vote for Ron Paul he's right.Noone can invade America without risking getting vaporised by the most powerful nation ever. There is nothing to fear.

  • @noado51 he's not white though, therefore very few in Republican/Democrat mainstream will care. If there is a war in future, he'll be a footnote in the American casus belli, but nothing more

  • @ivangrozny27 If this war starts we may all become footnotes and nothing more.Let's push for peace.

  • King Obama doesn't care he recently murdered a US Citizen for being a "suspected terrorist"! And, your next...

  • LOL! Al-Jazeera is officially the mouthpiece for Zionists!!

  • Yanks are just spoiling for a war with Iran, so they'll try anything. Can't use the'weapons of mass destruction' again.

  • @cliffedward Now it's "the NUKES!" Which is just a variation of the old WMDs ploy anyway. Iran and Pakistan are the last links in their chain of encirclement of Russa and China. Or so they think; the NWO/IMF empire is already dead but doesn't realise it yet.

  • traitor to his fathers homeland

    

  • @TheTruthArmy By serving in his countrys military...yeah, whatever...

  • Good

  • "His family says he is a political pawn. So does the US government."

    Yeah, like we should believe the US government after the JFK assassination, Watergate, and the "Dubya-MDs" in Iraq. The only WMD was the anthrax in Colin Powell's hand at the UN trying to pitch that horseshit to the world

  • @Bonsse88 How dare you doubt our governments motives.  The U.S. is leading the world to freedom and prosperity and raising the moral responsibilities of the global governments to care for the needy around the world. We are saving them from themselves, and protecting their resources from local exploitation of the natives. Without US, where would all these backwards nations be?

    Ha, just wanted to get your heart rate going, I sometimes piffle in writing propaganda tripe. You are completely right

  • @darbone I want to hire whoever brainwashed you this well.

  • @ossBASHA it's called sarcasm, just joking around, if you read the end of the statement, I thought I made that clear.

  • @Bonsse88 Oh, Ya, always remember Patrick Tillman, a true hero no matter what the govt. makes up. Also look up the Georgia Guide Stones, There is an agenda,and it is carved in stone for all to see.

  • @Bonsse88 excellent comment

  • @Bonsse88 and the UFO's man its all a conspiracy but it doesn't matter because the world is gonna totally blow up in December or something... Yeah man.

  • if he is a spy he deserves to die,if he wasnt he doesent,simple as that.if details iranians provided are true he is indeed spy.until now most of the facts iranians declare are true

  • It's funny, we don't know all the facts, if he is a spy, I wouldn't be surprised, but if he isn't then I wouldn't be surprised either.

  • Fair, next.

  • Spy=die

  • If they stopped harassing Iran shit like this wouldn't happen in the first place.

  • A rogue erratic autocracy captures an American visiting their country, sentences him to death, and elicits the irrelevant and stupid comments displayed here on Al Jazeera's reportage. Democracy depends on an informed populace, not such ilk as the ignorant children prattling here.

  • @TheTheman45 If the US is the worst country in the world,

    why are millions of people trying to come here, legally or

    illegally? Bet North Korea, Somalia, etc., don't have a problem

    with illegal immigrants. We need walls to keep them out; not in!

  • @Jeanne90275 Maybe cos the US is raping and bombing their countries...

  • @witness00fleming What comment are you referring to?

  • @Jeanne90275 You asking why so many people are coming to the USA if they are the "worst" country in the world.

    I believe their people are not, but their government is!

  • 100$ this will be used against Ron Paul in the next debate!

  • I think that there are many us spies in iran, just look at those recent assasinaton etc.. so no wonder why iran is abit paranoid now.

  • if your in someone else's country and break their laws, then you should be punished according to their laws. If an Iranian was caught spying in America, he would be tortured at guantanamo bay. stop with the bullshit and get with reality.

  • @binkiie4dictator Agreed Friend!

  • THIS is when we need Bill Clinton to go there and bring him home. even though US is the worst nation in the world.

  • shame on him

  • Evidently, visiting one's grandmothers in Iran=spying. Did his

    grandmothers have some kind of secret information to pass

    on to him? Every time Iran has some problem with the inter-

    national community, they arrest someone for being a spy. Granted,

    it was pretty bad timing for him to go to Iran, but, really, this is

    becoming deja vu...all over again.

  • @Jeanne90275 I might believe he was only there visiting his granny if he a) wasn't a US soldier, b) hadn't served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and c) hadn't been a hired mercenary. Why would a man with this background visit a country which has hostile relations with the US?

  • @ivangrozny27 Oh...get real He revealed his ENTIRE background

    to the Iranian gov. b/4 he went there. The Iranian gov. had ALL this

    info B/4 he entered Iran. Although I'll admit his timing was lousy,

    maybe he wanted to see his grandmothers while they were still

    alive. He was a translator, taught language classes, and was with

    a start-up video co...hardly a threat to Iran. Iranian gov. does this

    whenever they feel threatened...you like this, go live there. They'll

    jail you, too!

  • Why would we invade Iran? They havent done anything illegal...

  • @11ammas No body is invading Iran son. Calm down OK?

  • if Iran wants mercy from Allah they should give mercy to this young man. even though i think he was a spy, he even admitted to it.

  • @TheTheman45 Like that cant be coerced...they never proved anything....all they did was arrest and beat him till he said that.

  • @BennyIceEyes that's possible, but i just hope they don't kill him.

  • Free Amir Facebook page

    facebook.com/groups/2146673219­55458/

  • @BennyIceEyes Thanks...this arrest is a farce. I guess his

    grandmothers had some secret information to give him...

    yeah, right!

  • @Jeanne90275 We've gotten 3000 members in 2 days....

  • @BennyIceEyes Make that 3001 :-)

  • @BennyIceEyes Make that 3001 :-)

  • @BennyIceEyes Make that 3001 :-)

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  • see video @ /zLaNUlyyNN8

  • Obama, what kind of leader are you to not go over there and get him out?

  • i think the thumbs says it all.

  • @2:04 man that pisses on dead people

  • I bet if that guy was White the U.S. would be going to war with Iran.

  • and how many Arabs have been executed by the US government? 2 million?

  • wow, she didn't even say they tortured her, the usa would at least do that much. The gitmo crew would gladly opt for solitary confinement.

  • :,<

  • good... execute him

  • Really, the LAST thing Iran wants to do is execute a US Marine. It's just plain asking for trouble.

  • @scorpiooooooh y is a trouble ?

  • If you are an american and you go to Iran. You are RETARDED!

  • How Iraqis, Palestines, Lybians, Afghans...... have executed and pissed on by the US? The reports are there, go read!

  • At least Iran has a trial, and in the past they have released alleged spies.

    So who is to say he is not a spy?

    Furthermore if this was an alleged Iranian spy in America, it would not be on the news, he would be at some undisclosed location, and detained there indefinitely.

    So why the commotion about Iran, the US is far worse in this regard.

  • @Cubepusher88 The USA just murders them and if there are 300 people in the area, they end up collateral damage...

    The USA has become worst than Stalin, Hitler and Mao all put together... the government is nothing but criminal and needs to be replaced with a constitutional government that obeys the laws.

  • They want Iran to show compassion when the USA murders over a million innocent people, bomb and destroy nations only to install Rothschild controlled puppets and central banks while robbing natural resources.

    Every nation attacked so far did not have a Rothschild central bank, but they do now, that is what these wars are all about. Rothschild created and controls Israel and the Federal Reserve.

    Rothschild's lobby (AIPAC) controls congress using bribery and extortion.

    Israel staged 9/11 fact

  • @lickdacat2 enraging right? sadly most americans dont even know who the rothchilds are.

  • @causticapocolypse Well more and more are finding outr just who the banksters are and what they are up to.

  • @causticapocolypse Most Americans are brainwashed zombies.. they think the richest man is a Mexican guy.. Bill Gates.. Buffett... etc.. Rothschild has 500 times the top 100 richest list combined...

    The morons believe anything the lamestream media puts out... they don't realize the federal reserve has been paying billions every year since 1973 to control the media and everything they hear...

    Wake the fuck up people... do some research

  • How does a person with no classified access spy?

  • @BigBaldAndBadass I guess if they had classified access they would not be much of a spy. Israel spys on the usa more than any other nation. Israel staged 9/11, the evidence is overwhelming, just like the attack on the USS Liberty.

    The media and government are controlled by the zionists so we don't learn about it,. at least through the media and government. Congress is going to pass the SOPA bill soon to censor/shut down the internet.

    Moron Americans won't say anything until it is too late.

  • @lickdacat2 Don't be to quick to condemn the American people; more are waking up every day -- as evidenced by the great support for Ron Paul's campaign. People are fed up with lies, wars, depressions and police statism; people are working for peace, prosperity and liberty.

    RON PAUL in 2012!

  • @KaptKan1 People confuse day to day working Americans with the present day US government. Unfortunately True Americans are not rulling their own country anymore since 40 or 50 or so years. That is why I would like to see Ron Paul in the White House.

    Now on the issue concerning this young man, he already confesed what "certain people" offered him or ordered him to do in Iran. It is very unfortunate, but Iran is not Holland or a little island nation in the South Pacific.

  • @lickdacat2 before you define all Americans, as sheep, let me be the first one to say FUCK THE HELL outta you, now I know we do have some sheeple, but not all of us are asleep,not all of us blindly believe fucking MSM. some of us research ,do some serious leg work. so before painting with a broad fucking stroke ,understand ,that your not 100% on the money,not looking for a flame war, just wanted to correct your error,

  • Marines aren't they the guys that kill and piss on dead people ?

  • @eng3680 yep. what an embarrassment. i hope those jarheads dont get to come home.

  • @causticapocolypse Finally someone with a functioning brain I was starting to lose hope.

  • @eng3680 You shouldent really judge the whole marine company over 3 people

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  • @DaRkCrEsT995 Why not they represent the country and the whole marine company when they put the uniform on.

  • @eng3680 Only the ones that deserve it.

  • @ladylordess you should change your name from ladylordess to stupid lady.

  • @eng3680 Your comment: Nugatory.

  • That guy is not the typical american. This would not be the first time the us government was spying.

  • No one sees this guy as american.

  • @TheEviIOyo What do you mean? That is the sole reason that they have kidnapped him, because he is an American.

  • @SerratedXx I'm saying emotionally this does not register with average Americans, they see some Arab guy getting executed in Iran.

  • @TheEviIOyo I think you underestimate the average American a bit much, Amir isn't a strictly Arabian name, and he went to Iran to visit a grandparent, and see the country of his ancestors. I think once they were informed that he is American the average American would empathize with his plight.

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  • @Mumineen99 You don't know what Iranian soldiers are like. Immature assholes exist in every country.

  • @Evergr3entree Does your logic apply to hmm lets say not all Muslims are terrorists? In fact I don't believe in this whole terrorist farce created by the west to use as an excuse to police the world & bomb other countries that don't agree with them. I believe the Iranian military defends and not in the offence. No Muslim country are currently occupying other lands like the evil empire US are right now. If an Iranian spied on US soil, he would have got water boarded, executed & peed on!.

  • USA is falling on it's arse the economy is collapsing they have high unemployment people are begging on the street ! USA cant cope anymore if it start war with Iran that's the end USA will be buried in the red sea !! USA us no longer the world power ! China is the world power ! America terrorised the world for years pay back time ! Israel will be wiped out

  • Not to worry. He'll escape, kill them all and then pee on them because he's a Marine and that's what they do.

  • lol iran is a failing state. at this point they're kissing venezuala's ass and banking on russia and china to save them. this is an act of desperation

  • @mezmurized1 The USA is a failing state; it's deeply in debt and outright owned by China.

  • @KaptKan1 you're an idiot. we owe a very small percentage of our debt and deficit to china. and they depend on us just as much as we depend on them. and sure our economy is down and sure our debt is high, but the fact is we have a huge diverse civil society, a solid infrastructure, and universities and research centers which spur innovation. this isnt our first recession, so we'll be fine. iran on the other hand would rather have a nuke and risk hurting its economy than care for its people.

  • @mezmurized1 You have been totally brainwashed.

    Iran has not attacked another nation for over 300 years. There is no evidence Iran is developing nuclear weapons. Israel staged the 9/11 attacks. Google the "dancing Israelis" you will learn the truth that the US government censored.

    The attack on the USS Liberty, Google it, the zionist media and government censored the truth there too just as they did 9/11.

    Three WTC skyscrapers brought down using nanothermite which only the US military has.

  • @lickdacat2 You're right on all counts; you must not be blindly swallowing every "sound bite" the MSM are ladling out.

  • @lickdacat2 9/11 how many times do i have to say this!... 9/11 was not an inside job!

  • @Joshdyisdifh BULLSHIT.

  • @Joshdyisdifh Obviously you are a brainwashed moron who never took the time to look at the evidence.

    I imagine you believe 2 skyscrapers fell in NYC on 9/11. You don't know about the molten iron flowing under all the buildings blown up on 9/11 a month later... or nanothermite found in all dust samples tested and more.

    Don't show your ignorance if you cant take a few minutes out of ten years to check the facts you total fucking idiot.

    My GOD, do some fucking research or shut the fuck up!

  • @lickdacat2 even Osama Bin Laden admitted doing 9/11 so the point is now proven

  • @Joshdyisdifh Sorry moron, those tapes were admitted by the CIA to be faked....

  • @lickdacat2 then you must be a communist :| to think that

  • @Joshdyisdifh your problem is you believe the lamestream media propaganda.. stop listening to them and do some research to learn the truth...

    go to infowars. com to learn what is really happening in the world.. everything there is true.... I have offered $1000 to anybody that can find anything false there... you cant do it... it is all true and can be proven to be fact.. wake up, don't be a moron...

  • @Joshdyisdifh Plus Bin Laden died in 2001... that is proven to be true...

  • @lickdacat2 no it has not

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  • @lickdacat2 whats makes you think he died in 2001?

  • @lickdacat2 Id like to see any proof you have on that....

  • @lickdacat2 i never brought up 9/11 nor did i bring up the USS liberty. all im saying is Iran IS trying to develop nuclear weapons. otherwise they wouldnt be building underground reactors. and if they really wanted nuclear technology for civilian use, they have the proper means to do so (IAEA). as far as 9/11 goes, i am convinced that there is more to it that what the us government has been telling us. but just because you read random shit on the internet doesnt mean you know the truth either.

  • @mezmurized1 Meanwhile, Israel has nukes. Why not beat the war drums for an attack on Israel? And THAT's where the comments about the USS Liberty and 9/11 come in. But you buy the MSM agitprop and endorse whatever your masters tell you to, so why would facts influence you?

  • @mezmurized1 You stupid moron.. all nuclear reactors are underground.

    If Iran wants nuclear power, it isn't our business....

    Israel has over 500 nukes, biological weapons.. chemical weapons.. all illegal, yet they refuse to allow any inspections of anykind..

    Israel is the terrorist nation who have attacked the USA many times... Israel is constantly attacking its neighbors... wake the fuck up people...

    Iran has not attacked another nation in over 300 years...

  • @lickdacat2 and sure US has funded dictators and militia groups, but dont act like iran is any better.

  • @mezmurized1 Name a dictator funded by Iran. Besides, you think that you have the right to attack other lands simply because they don't back the same dictators that you do?!? What kind of asinine crap is that?! You just love the US empire and don't really care how much evil it commits. Why not be honest enough to admit it?!

  • @KaptKan1 its a shithole of a country run by religious nutcases. what'd you expect. 1 dollar is equal to 11254 rials.....some economy.

  • @mezmurized1 What nutjobs are you referring to? Anyone who is christian?

  • @SerratedXx no you moron, im talking about dumbass ayatollahs that think they know what they're doing. the same animals that convict anyone who goes against them for "crimes against god"