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Iranian Physics Student From UT Gets 10 Years In Jail For Spying
scibri writes "Omid Kokabee, a laser physics graduate student from the University of Texas who has been imprisoned in Tehran for the past 15 months, was sentenced to 10 years in jail on Sunday for allegedly conspiring with foreign countries against Iran. Kokabee was arrested in February 2011 while on a trip home, and charged with 'communicating with a hostile government' (i.e. Israel) and 'illegal earnings.' He has consistently denied the charges, and refused to speak at his trial, where no evidence against him was presented. Several international science groups, including the American Physical Society, have spoken up in his defense, and an online petition has been set up in support."
He's the last nuclear physicist in the country that Mossad hasn't killed, and they're sending him to prison?!?
What political party do you join when you don't like Bible-thumpers *or* hippies?
Someone caught someone theoretically spying for israel. Poor victim!
He is of course, innocent. Israel doesn't do anything wrong. Why would they! If you think they do you are a nazi and we'll sue your ass into the ghettos.
Of course I'm not israeli or jew. I'm totally unbiased.
Also, please join the JIDF today and fight the good (albeit non existant) fight!