Wednesday, 24 February 2016

Iran 'captures elderly father of imprisoned US national'



Iranian powers have captured the elderly father of an American who has been in prison in Iran for as far back as four months, the man's family said.

Baquer Namazi, 80, was captured on Monday in Tehran, his wife Effie Namazi said on Facebook.

Mr Namazi's child, Siamak Namazi, a http://www.projectfedena.org/users/191903-mehendesindouble US-Iranian national, was confined by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard in October while seeing crew.

Authorities have yet to declare charges against Siamak.

Baquer Namazi, who is additionally a double US-Iranian national, was taken to Evin Prison, where his child is likewise being held, Mrs Namazi said in her post.

He has a genuine heart and different conditions which requires unique drug, she said.

"Presently both my blameless child Siamak and my Baquer are in jail for reasons unknown. This is a bad dream I can't portray," she composed.

"I have been attempting to discover more data however have been not able do as such. The attorney additionally couldn't get any data or get the chance to see him."

Gotten some information about the senior Mr Namazi's capture, US Secretary of State John Kerry said: "I am exceptionally acquainted with this and I am locked in on it particularly, yet I am not allowed because of security motivations to go into subtle elements here."

US State Department Spokesman Mark Toner said the office knew about reports that a US resident had been confined in Iran.

A previous Iranian common senator and Unicef official, Baquer Namazi was all the more as of late running Hamyaran, an umbrella office for Iranian non-legislative associations.

His child Siamak was most as of late working for Crescent Petroleum in the United Arab Emirates, and already headed a counseling business in Iran.

Baquer Namazi's capture comes over a monthhttp://mehndiurdu.polyvore.com/ after a prominent detainee swap in the middle of Iran and the United States, which saw five Americans discharged from Iranian jail consequently for forgiveness for seven Iranians.

Three of the four liberated US-Iranian detainees, including Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian, left Iran toward the end of last month. A fourth did not fly with them, US authorities said.

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