Their charge is espionage, which is apparently somewhat dubious.
I'm not sure why anyone (especially a western woman) would consider Iran as a tourism destination.
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People travel there and enjoy it. Iranian people seem very hospitable
Oh I don't doubt the people are cool.
I just can't understand tourism to extreme authoritarian states. I can't personally justify the risk, which is entirely my thing and I shouldn't project.
They should offer to trade Andrew for them.
Hopefully the British government can do some diplomacy and get them out. I wonder if they have inmate commissary accounts in Iran.
If they're gonna do it, I hope they get a better deal than when Biden traded a notorious international arms dealer for... a WNBA player 😮💨
These kinds of sham trials and convictions purely happen because the government of those people have arrested and convicted Iranian spies and/or assassins. They'll only ever be released in exchange for those. Like what Iran did for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asadollah_Asadi