Let’s compare the situation of American Cindy Sheehan in the U.S. or Canada, as she is here now, with that of Iranian-Canadian Ramin Jahanbegloo, who was just arrested by authorities and jailed in Iran. Let’s also bring the formerly similar and very pesky (for liberals) Iraq and Afghanistan details into our comparisons.
If Canada were more like Iran, or the former Iraq or Afghanistan before the Americans like Casey Sheehan with the help of Canadian and other national forces started the process of freeing them, Cindy Sheehan would be arrested and thrown in jail by now by Stephen Harper’s squads of “authorities”, much like Ramin Jahanbegloo has been in Iran, and like Zara Kazemi who was jailed and killed before him by Iranian authorities in Iran.
I don’t doubt that also would have happened to Sheehan in Iraq (perhaps with a quick rape just before death), and in Afghanistan too, under their former fascist tyrannical rulers, but for the bravery of folks like American Casey Sheehan.
Apparently liberals, including Sheehan, are in favor of that. This I find odd.
Pesky details.
Jailed Iranian-Canadian’s plight echoes murdered Kazemi case
A prominent Iranian-Canadian arrested in Tehran, reportedly for spying, is being held under circumstances similar to those of murdered Montreal photojournalist Zara Kazemi because Iran is loathe to let foreign diplomats meddle in domestic cases, government officials and those connected to the Kazemi case warned Thursday.
Ramin Jahanbegloo, an internationally known human rights advocate, was arrested around April 27 when he stopped at the Tehran Airport on his way from India to attend a conference in Brussels. A former professor at Harvard University and France’s prestigious Sorbonne, Jahanbegloo was running the Tehran-based Cultural Research Bureau, a private-sector non-governmental organization.
When the former University of Toronto professor failed to arrive at the Brussels conference on Saturday, his colleagues contacted Canadian officials.
Ottawa has already made inquiries of Iranian officials in Tehran and in Canada, but with reports Thursday night that Jahanbegloo has already been placed under medical care, Ottawa has been unable to secure a visit with the Canadian citizen.
“This is a case we are providing consular assistance to, and at the request of the family we are not going to provide any additional information,” said Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay. “We don’t want to endanger his life or his current circumstance.”
Jahanbegloo is reportedly being held in the notorious Evin prison, where many political prisoners have reported being tortured until they confessed to crimes.
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