By: Kayhan Int’l
Humiliation has become the hallmark of the US and the latest setback to its blundering policies was eating of the humble pie last Wednesday by the Donald Trump administration which had no other choice but to release from 10 days of illegal detention Press TV anchor Marzieh Hasehmi.
Born Melanie Franklin in New Orleans, this conscientious Afro-American lady embraced the truth of Islam and on marrying an Iranian citizen, adopted a Muslim name and moved to the Islamic Republic where she has been living happily with her family while using her political acumen and sense of justice to broadcast realities to the world and expose the fallacious nature of the US and its clients in the region.
It seems Washington, which has continued to witness the failure of its criminal policies worldwide, especially in the West Asia-North Africa region, had no clue on how to continue to conceal facts from the international audience, and in a witless move on January 13 FBI seize Hashemi and her son Mohammad Reza on arrival at the St. Louis Lambert International Airport in Missouri without any charges, and without listening to her pleas that she was on a homecoming visit to see her ailing brother.
Hashemi’s ordeal in the police state called the US showed the gross injustice that prevails at the prisons where despite her protests that she was a Muslim her Hijab or head scarf was forcibly removed and pork sandwiches placed before her. She had no other choice but to cover her head with a spare blouse and virtually starve for three days, until clean food was provided.
On her release, the 59-year old Marzieh Hashemi said in her first interview: "What I realize is how easy it is for them to make someone disappear. If [my son] was not there, anything could have happened to me and no one would have known where I was. And I’m just wondering that this happens to how many people.”
She strongly criticized the cruel American justice system, saying: "It’s mind-boggling that you can be arrested, detained, shackled, not charged with a crime, as I definitely saw it firsthand.”
Her words are worth pondering upon, and is a clear proof of how the US tramples upon basic human rights, to the extent that many people are simple eliminated like mice – a charge that Washington labels at other countries while concealing hushed up murders of the innocent.
It is obvious that Marzieh Hashemi’s unwarranted imprisonment and then her release when pressured by people and organizations around the world, has ripped the mask of hypocrisy from the US face.
It is for the human rights centres and the UN to take up the issue and press Washington for disclosure of undocumented prisoners, who if alive, are likely to be in tens of thousands.
It is clear that the US, in spite of its claim to be the world’s mightiest military power and the strongest economy of the globe, is devoid of basic humanitarian values.
People are subjected to the most inhuman crimes on the basis of the colour of their skin, their religion, their defence of civil liberties, their opposition to the racist child-killing Zionist regime, their principled political leanings, their denunciation of American state terrorism, and their support for independent and oppressed nations, such as the Islamic Republic of Iran,
The Marzieh Hashemi episode has thus badly backfired and caused permanent damage to the US, once again proving the righteousness of victims of the blundering American policies.
The Islamic Republic which jails only criminals and spies, stands by the Press TV anchor and demands her safe return to her adopted homeland.
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