An American Hostage in Iran--Again
Next Wednesday, November 4th, is the anniversary of the 1979
takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, which led to a mass hostage crisis that
dragged on for four hundred and forty-four days. Thirty-six years later, the
Iranians are still at it. For more than two weeks, U.S. media, including The New Yorker, have been withholding information—at
the request of the family—about yet another American seized in Tehran. The
embargo was broken late Thursday with published reports that Iranian security
had detained Siamak Namazi, an American businessman of Iranian descent who was
once tapped as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
Namazi was taken to Tehran’s Evin
Prison in mid-October, according to friends and colleagues. He is a business
strategist, normally based in Dubai, and was visiting his family. His mother’s
home was ransacked; his confiscated computer has since been used by an
intelligence wing of the Revolutionary Guard to launch cyber-attacks against
his contacts. I was among those hacked. So was the State Department.
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