The Iranian Man Who Refused to Spy for the United States

[basquebromance]

The Man Who Refused to Spy

The F.B.I. tried to recruit an Iranian scientist as an informant. When he balked, the payback was brutal.

www.newyorker.com

Trump released him from prison in exchange for hostages

from the article:

"In the summer of 2017, an Iranian professor named Sirous Asgari came to the U.S. on a visa to visit his children. He would spend the next three years caught up in the American justice and immigration systems for crimes he did not commit—and by spring of 2020, he was fighting for survival in an endless carousel of squalid ICE detention centers overrun by COVID-19. “I knew I hadn’t done anything wrong,” Asgari said. Tap the link in our bio to read about how Asgari was made to pay, after his refusal to act as an F.B.I. informant, with three years of hell"

 

[fncceo]

Oh well. He probably should have stayed home, eh?

 

[LuckyDuck]

The last I checked, Russia, China, Cuba, North Korea, as well as other nations, try to recruit Americans to spy for them and sometimes succeed. So, where's the news?

 

[fncceo]

he was fighting for survival in an endless carousel of squalid ICE detention centers overrun by COVID-19