Iran Hikers (Hostages) Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal released from Iranian prison after bail (ransom) is paid

Here’s another example of mainstream media misinformation and how it’s being reported.

First of all these two Americans are a couple of idiots that thought it was a cool idea to go hiking on the Iraq-Iran border.

How many sane people would do this?

So of course Iranian military snatch them up as potential extortion pieces/ political bargaining chips. North Korea did the same thing grabbing two Asian-American journalists and holding them until Bill Clinton got their release after they were pardoned in a kangaroo court.

What these two incidents have in common is how the mainstream media is not calling them what they actually were-hostages being held by rogue governments.

The Huffington Post

After more than two years in Iranian custody, two Americans convicted as spies took their first steps toward home Wednesday as they bounded down from a private jet and into the arms of family for a joyful reunion in the Gulf state of Oman.

The families called this "the best day of our lives," and President Barack Obama said their release – under a $1 million bail-for-freedom deal – "wonderful news."

The release capped complicated diplomatic maneuvers over a week of confusing signals by Iran's leadership on the fate of Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer.

Although the fate of the two gripped America, it was on the periphery of the larger showdowns between Washington and Tehran that include Iran's nuclear program and its ambitions to widen military and political influence in the Middle East and beyond. But – for a moment at least – U.S. officials may be adding words of thanks in addition to their calls for alarm over Iran.

For Tehran, it was a chance to court some goodwill after sending a message of defiance with hard-line justice in the July 2009 arrests of the Americans along the Iran-Iraq border. The Americans always maintained they were innocent hikers.

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Do you really thing these two knuckleheads would be referred to as “hikers” if a Republican was in the White House. By the way, all three of these so-called hikers are Pie-in-the-Sky Liberal idiots.


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