Iranian smuggling ring busted near Mexican border
WorldNetDaily:
A smuggling ring specializing in bringing Iranians into the U.S. over the Mexico border has been broken up in an FBI sting operation.
A 39-year-old Iranian with permanent legal residency status who is suspected of having smuggled 60 other Iranians into the U.S. was arrested Thursday in Mesa, Ariz., according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
At his arraignment yesterday, Zeayadali Malhamdary, who owns a tailoring business, pleaded not guilty. He faces a detention hearing tomorrow.
Iran has long been designated a terrorist state by the U.S. State Department and FBI.
The FBI began investigating Malhamdary after a source told immigration officials that Malhamdary had sought help getting false Mexican visas so he could bring Iranians into Mexico and then across the border into Arizona.
The source also told investigators that Malhamdary had asked for help bringing his sister into the United States. According to the probable cause statement by FBI Agent Aaron Kellerman, the source didn't help him, but the sister did arrive in Arizona.
Federal prosecutors say Malhamdary had previously smuggled about 60 Iranians into the United States.
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posted by Adam Lawson @ 10:17 AM
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"Iranian smuggling ring"
Leaving off the last half (or so) of your headline, I have to ask: How would this phrase have been interpreted by an average person some years ago? Probably as a bunch of Iranians who were smuggling...something. But now you have to include the possibility that it's Iranians who are being smuggled. Sort of a subject-object replacement.
I know something of this case. This man's sister-in-law came to my church this weekend (yes, I said CHURCH) with his two children whom she is caring for while he is in prison.
What no one is reporting is that this man is a Christian who escaped persecution in an Islamic Republic and was seeking to do the same for fellow believers still in Iran.
What he did was illegal. But isn't rescuing religious minorities from oppressive governments the kind of thing a "Christian" nation ought to do?
I would suspect that any Christian willing to give up his children and freedom to save his persecuted brothers would be the kind of citizen we should embrace. But our blind-eye policies make it impossible for these people to escape the persecutions we seem so indignant over. Talk is cheap.
There is somthing fishy about this name, it dose not sound Iranian, it sound more like names from Iran's eastern nieghboring countries.
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