Iranians Lament Georgia: from Peach State to Republic of Kidnapping?………
“Tbilisi's secret extradition of an Iranian citizen to the United States was a major political blunder, a former Georgian intelligence official says. Former Georgian minster for state security Anzor Maisuradze on Thursday criticized the government for arresting Amir Hossein Ardebili in 2007 and handing the 36-year-old Iranian over to American law enforcement officials. “The extradition was not a good idea, even if Ardebili had been accused of terrorism, Georgia should have tired him in Georgian courts or deported him to Iran,” Maisuradze was quoted by the Georgian daily Rezonansi as saying. According to the former official, this is not the first time that Tbilisi has sacrificed its relations with regional partner Tehran for Washington. In the past, Maisuradze said, Iran's Russian-made planes were repaired in Georgia but at some point Tbilisi stopped the activity due to US pressure. Ardebili, who was an Iranian procurement official, was lured to Tbilisi by the Philadelphia-based US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in 2007. He was then arrested, and secretly extradited to the United States, where he has been held in solitary confinement for more than two years……..”
What would old Josif Dzugashvili say to all this?
I guess if I were a Georgian (from Georgia Republic of Tbilisi not the tpeach state of the tsouth) I would stay out of Iran for now. Unless I had urgent business, like defecting or something.
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