VOA News - On The Line; Human Rights In Iran (Part 1/2)

28 July 2007

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Host: This is On the Line, and I'm Eric Felten.

Four Iranian-Americans are being held against their will by the radical clerical regime in Iran. Two of them, Middle East scholar Haleh Esfandiari and social scientist Kian Tajbakhsh, were paraded on Iranian state-run television and forced to confess to vague crimes against the state. The other two American citizens, journalist Parnaz Azima and peace activist Ali Shakeri, have also been charged with threatening Irans national security.

The United States is calling on Irans Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to release all Americans currently being held on groundless charges. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the U-S is appalled at their mistreatment:

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