Have been listening to @jrezaian’s superb podcast, 544 days. & was thinking about the months in 2015 when the timeline of the sham judicial proceedings seemed related to the timeline of the Iran nuclear talks. “indictment” announced april 2015, “trial” may 26, 2015,…
“conviction” oct. 11, 2015. the sham judicial proceedings basically geared up as the parties were heading into what they thought were the final round of talks, which stretched into july, when deal reached july 14…
the prisoner swap talks were happening in a separate channel than the nuclear talks, but Jason’s IRGC captors seem to have had their own agenda which was related to the nuclear talks calendar. …
the prisoner swap talks seemed to go into higher gear after the jcpoa was reached in july 2015, & before implementation day in january 2016, when he was ultimately released. was struck, in thinking about that calendar, that as jason’s hostage takers were in negotiations on a swap
they seized Siamak Namazi, who remains in Evin prison to this day, six years later. Jason was “convicted” on Oct. 11, 2015. Siamak Namazi was arrested two days later, on Oct. 13, 2015. The IRGC added another hostage to its collection, as it was negotiating a swap of the others
It is truly hard to believe that Siamak’s case has not been resolved to this day.
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