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(CNN) -- Iranian security forces arrested three Americans, accusing them of illegally entering the country from Iraq's Kurdish region, Iran's official Press TV said on Saturday.
The network's Web site quoted a wire story saying the three Americans were backpackers and that a Kurdish official had warned them not to hike in the mountains because of the proximity of the Iranian border.
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Some of the pictures I've seen from Iran's wilderness are the most beautiful I've ever seen. It's too bad Iran hates us so much :\ I don't know anything about Kurdistan's surrounding areas so I can't comment on whether the risk was worth it, but I'm guessing it wasn't 
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Re: Three American hikers arrested in Iran August 04, 2009 01:16AM |
"...threw a bunch of right-wing religious zealots out in the last election."
Just about all of the political litmus tests that I have ever taken indicate that I am more of a centrist, so I will dare to comment on so-called American right-wing zealots: I worked with pro-Shah Christian Iranians (called "Assyrians"
in the central valley when I was in grad school. After I got over the surprise of meeting Presbyterian Iranians and other denominations, I learned that they didn't care for the extreme violence potential of either side of the spectrum - be it the late Shah's Savak or the Ayatollah's Republican Guard (or is it the Revolutionary Guard; I get confused over the two names).
Unless I interpret incorrectly, the major point of contention with so-called American zealots is the abortion issue. As if our relatively minuscule violence toward clinics and physicians isn't severe enough, I daresay if you practiced abortion in a Muslim land, the best you could hope for is a mere hanging. After Khomeini's takeover, some of the Shah's government were executed by machine gun - starting at the ankles and working up with carefully-placed shots to prolong agony before a merciful coup-de-grace.
On occasion, I find myself a bit peeved at the ignorance of some fundamentalist groups about a fraternal group I belong to, but they can't hold a candle to middle eastern cruelty. My apologies if I intruded on a personal spat, but I felt compelled to minimize the alleged extreme of American religion.
Just about all of the political litmus tests that I have ever taken indicate that I am more of a centrist, so I will dare to comment on so-called American right-wing zealots: I worked with pro-Shah Christian Iranians (called "Assyrians"
in the central valley when I was in grad school. After I got over the surprise of meeting Presbyterian Iranians and other denominations, I learned that they didn't care for the extreme violence potential of either side of the spectrum - be it the late Shah's Savak or the Ayatollah's Republican Guard (or is it the Revolutionary Guard; I get confused over the two names).Unless I interpret incorrectly, the major point of contention with so-called American zealots is the abortion issue. As if our relatively minuscule violence toward clinics and physicians isn't severe enough, I daresay if you practiced abortion in a Muslim land, the best you could hope for is a mere hanging. After Khomeini's takeover, some of the Shah's government were executed by machine gun - starting at the ankles and working up with carefully-placed shots to prolong agony before a merciful coup-de-grace.
On occasion, I find myself a bit peeved at the ignorance of some fundamentalist groups about a fraternal group I belong to, but they can't hold a candle to middle eastern cruelty. My apologies if I intruded on a personal spat, but I felt compelled to minimize the alleged extreme of American religion.
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