Clotilde Reiss is on trial in Iran.

[Christine Murray]

more at Beeb link : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8219782.stm

[Christine Murray]

interesting piece by the Beeb here : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8223239.stm ln the meantime, Khameni , whose leadership is questioned by ex-iranian MPs has stated that 'there was no foreign element to the recent post-electoral *unrest* '. (l do love euphemisms)

[Christine Murray]

more on Khameni's position : http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=ht...2PQ2FhTfQ515jN

[cactusflower]

Lets get one thing straight - I DO NOT SUPPORT THE USA.

I DO NOT SUPPORT THEIR INVASIONS OF IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN.

I BELIEVE THEM TO BE GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES.

I BELIEVE THEM TO BE GUILTY OF GROSS VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ACROSS THE WORLD.

I DONT VIEW OBAMA AS ANYTHING OTHER THAN ANOTHER US PRESIDENT, HE SPEAKS MORE ELOQUENTLY THAN HIS APISH PREDECESSOR, BUT THATS ABOUT IT. LITTLE REAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO INTERNATIONALLY.

Now can we quit the whataboutery? For that I believe the above about the US, I would still rather live in the US than Iran.

Are you sure you rather live in the US if its natural resources had been stolen from it for decades by an external power, if it had experienced externally installed dictatorship and if it was under economic sanctions ?

[cactusflower]

as you have fallen into the huge western post-election break-it campaign, cause your puppet strings are a bit loose you are dangling like the rear end of a sheeps swiss,

How accurately observed.

[cactusflower]

Reiss was released on bail to the French Embassy 12th August. Iran is reported to have offered a prisoner swap, but so far the French don't seem interested. The Ambassador didn't bother to visit her when she was in jail and an offer that she should stay in the Embassy during her trial wasnt taken up.

France 24 | France will not accept Clotilde Reiss prisoner swap | France 24

Meanwhile the US and UK are continuing to talk war.

[Christine Murray]

she is looking like a hostage now from what Cactusflower published above ^ : l would not be jumping to conclusions of disinterest CF unless logic is applied. i) Who do they want out of French prisons ? ii) Her trial was a farce thus they are indulging in speculation on the basis of what they 'have'. All the fake government have is the upper hand in post-electoral propaganda really.

[Christine Murray]

Ms Reiss has appeared in court this week : Frenchwoman charged with provoking unrest appears in court | France 24

I shall add in her support facebook (and add that this thread which has been *trolled* to death
be used to discuss the issues surrounding post-electoral arrests and not as an attack thread)

Soutien à Clotilde Reiss, emprisonnée en Iran | Facebook

[Christine Murray]

Sarko responded to Ahmadinejad's comments on Ms Reiss at Copenhagen. its almost like the public humiliation of a show trial and the attendant media-fodder generated in the wake of *that* election result has become a formal negotiation : http://mobile.france24.com/en/200912...ys-ahmadinejad

[Christine Murray]

some of the links in the OP are timed out , so bumping the Beeb one. The name of Hossein Rassam has not been mentioned since the post-electoral
round of show trials : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8191858.stm