Iran Kidnaps American Journalist
by Bill Levinson
In 1979, Iran violated international law by invading the American embassy and holding American citizens hostage. The same country that recently practiced piracy on the high seas against the United Kingdom has kidnapped an American citizen, Roxana Saberi. The excuse that Iran used for this latest act of criminal savagery was that Ms. Saberi attempted to buy a bottle of wine in Iran, where alcohol is illegal.
“She said that she had bought a bottle of wine and the person that sold it had reported it and then they came and arrested her.”
We wonder why the individual who sold her the wine would have reported it when his own possession and sale of alcohol is illegal under Iranian law, unless Iran’s government told him to do so to fabricate an excuse to kidnap an American. Perhaps this is the “test” of Obama to which his Vice President referred last year; Ahmadinejad wants to see what, if anything, Obama will do about an act of war against the United States.
