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USA does this all the time. They do it to criminals, but if Iran considers this author a criminal then the kidnap part is not really an issue - This was securi

USA does this all the time. They do it to criminals, but if Iran considers this author a criminal then the kidnap part is not really an issue - This was securities and mail fraud - "alleging that he had been illegally abducted by agents of the United States government. Reed claimed that he had been living in Bimini in the Bahamas, engaging in real estate transactions, when CIA agents enticed him by deceitful means upon a private airplane destined not for Nassau, as he had been told, but for Fort Lauderdale, Florida. According to Reed, the agents made him lie on the floor of the small plane for thirty minutes, holding a cocked gun to his head and threatening to blow his brains out." https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-reed-31 https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-reed-31

dmos62 5y ago
I think it's important to realise that it's not only the US-hostile regimes that do this.
- 0xdeadb00f 5y ago
  Not only US-hostile regimes, but the US regime itself!
relativ575 5y ago
> USA does this all the time. They do it to criminals, but if Iran considers this author a criminal then the kidnap part is not really an issue - It's criminal because it targeted an American citizen, on American soil. Why isn't that so hard to get? It wouldn't be criminal if it happened in Teheran, since that would be under a different sovereignty.
- trasz 5y ago
  It's not hard to get, it's just that it's rather silly - should North Korea have the right to kidnap someone allegedly targeting NK citizens? The only reason it works is because the US is the bully. Same reason american war criminals and terrorists usually don't get prosecuted.
  - finiteseries 5y ago
    Amid all the untold negatives of a world returning to great power competition as geopolitics resumes, grass will finally begin to grow over the spot where people used to gather and incredulously recount such basic precepts of power to each other as “might is right” and “do as I say, not as I do, or I will shoot you”.
- aaron695 5y ago
  > It's criminal because it targeted an American citizen, on American soil This is not true. It's in the article. She's an Iranian (dual) citizen and no kidnapping would have happened on American soil. USA does do what you say and kidnaps non American citizens not on American soil. Not sure if Iran ever has. But both off topic to my point. Kidnapping is cool or not. America does it all the time. You can be against both countries doing it. Just don't pretend what Iran was going to do was unusual.

dmos62 5y ago

I think it's important to realise that it's not only the US-hostile regimes that do this.

0xdeadb00f 5y ago
Not only US-hostile regimes, but the US regime itself!

relativ575 5y ago

> USA does this all the time. They do it to criminals, but if Iran considers this author a criminal then the kidnap part is not really an issue - It's criminal because it targeted an American citizen, on American soil. Why isn't that so hard to get? It wouldn't be criminal if it happened in Teheran, since that would be under a different sovereignty.

trasz 5y ago
It's not hard to get, it's just that it's rather silly - should North Korea have the right to kidnap someone allegedly targeting NK citizens? The only reason it works is because the US is the bully. Same reason american war criminals and terrorists usually don't get prosecuted.
- finiteseries 5y ago
  Amid all the untold negatives of a world returning to great power competition as geopolitics resumes, grass will finally begin to grow over the spot where people used to gather and incredulously recount such basic precepts of power to each other as “might is right” and “do as I say, not as I do, or I will shoot you”.
aaron695 5y ago
> It's criminal because it targeted an American citizen, on American soil This is not true. It's in the article. She's an Iranian (dual) citizen and no kidnapping would have happened on American soil. USA does do what you say and kidnaps non American citizens not on American soil. Not sure if Iran ever has. But both off topic to my point. Kidnapping is cool or not. America does it all the time. You can be against both countries doing it. Just don't pretend what Iran was going to do was unusual.