Hostage in Khamenei's Hand, MESSAGES From MOTHERS OF DETAINED AMERICAN HIKERS

MOTHERS OF DETAINED AMERICAN HIKERS SEND VIDEO MESSAGES TO THEIR CHILDREN

Families Again Call on Iran to Show Compassion and Let Them Return Home
The mothers of the three American hikers detained in Iran for almost four months today sent video messages to their children and made a direct appeal to the Iranian authorities to release them from Evin Prison, where they are being held without any contact with their families.

The video messages were made public on the eve of the US Thanksgiving holiday and ahead of Eid-e Qorban (Eid al-Adha), the festival marking the end of the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. They were sent to the Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations in New York, with a request to forward them to the three hikers Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal and to the Iranian authorities.
I love you, I miss you, I want you to be home, Fattals mother Laura said in the video. We sleep with our cell phones close to our beds in case, and hopefully, youll be able to call home. We say to ourselves every day, any day now, any day now, Josh will be released; Josh, Shane and Sarah will come home, Mrs. Fattal said.

Bauer, 27, Shourd, 31, and Fattal, 27, were detained on July 31 when news reports say they accidentally strayed across the border with Iran during a brief hiking trip in a resort area of Kurdistan, a peaceful region of northern Iraq. Iran has said they are suspected of illegal entry. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said two months ago that he would ask the Iranian judiciary to expedite the case and show maximum leniency to the three Americans, all graduates of the University of California, Berkeley. Despite this encouraging signal, the three friends remain held without charge.
If Sarah were here, Sarah, I would tell you I love you very, very much, Shourds mother Nora told her daughter. I want the Iranian officials, and especially President Ahmadinejad, to know that these three young people meant their country no harm, [and] please to search their hearts. They had no intention of entering Iran for any reason, Mrs. Shourd said.
The video messages follow repeated appeals to Iranian leaders from the families to release their loved ones on humanitarian grounds.

I wish you were sitting here right now. Most of all, I cant wait to hold you in my arms again, Bauers mother, Cindy Hickey, told her son. To the people who are detaining Shane and his good friends Sarah and Josh, I respectfully ask you to listen to us. I ask you to show compassion We love them and we miss them. Our lives have become empty without them.


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[lacountess]

From an Iranian to you: We are sorry this terrible thing happened to your children. They were victims of bad timing and bad circumstances with a regime so scared of its own shadow that it can't see reason. We hope your children, along with the Iranian freedom fighters who were jailed after the election crackdown, are released very soon. We also hope their jailers are put on trial and sent to prison for taking innocent people from other countries and their own hostage.

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[newworldordernyus]

the kids are hustages, not prisoners

the regime in Iran well knows the kids were tourists and had no intention to spy on Iran, specially in that geographic area were there is nothing to spy on except goats, Kurdish nomads and drug smaglers

also the chances are that they didn't even cross the border and were kidnaped on the Iraqi soil (there is no phisical border there, the natives walk across the border on daily bases)

[paymanmktr]

lol 3 jewish American come in Iran by mistake ,they were hiking in Iran/Iraq border near mine fields and by mistake they tress pass to Iran

this hiking story is insult to two years old child inteligence

[chromelung66]

I'd suggest Wayne Madsen's research and the AangrifanDOTBlogspot site.