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To: Sully- who wrote (18664)	5/22/2006 9:34:14 PM
From: Sully-	of 35834

Man Caught Smuggling Fellow Iranians Across Mexican Border...But, for What Purpose? By Thomas Joscelyn From NBC News 4 in Tucson, Arizona: <<< A Mesa man has admitted in federal court that he tried to smuggle an illegal immigrant from Iran across the U.S.-Mexico border. FBI agents arrested Zeayadali Malhamdary and raided his tailor shop May 26 after an undercover investigation found he tried to obtain Mexican visas for Iranians so they could fly into Mexico and then cross the border. Malhamdary has admitted to friends he crossed the Mexico border illegally in 1998 to escape religious persecution in Iran, whose official religion is the Shiite branch of Islam. He was granted refugee status in February 1999. ... >>> So, Malhamdary claims that he was escaping "religious persecution in Iran," but as first noticed by a poster over at Rantburg, this doesn't add up. The NBC account goes on to report: <<< According to Monday's plea deal, Malhamdary admitted that around September 2004, he began negotiating with someone to bring a group of Iranian nationals to the U.S. He eventually agreed to supply authentic Iranian passports to the person, who turned out to be an undercover agent with the U.S. Border Patrol, and he would arrange to have the Mexican visas placed into the passports so the Iranians could fly into Mexico. Malhamdary admitted that he went to Iran in March 2005 and returned with three passports, which he gave to the agent. >>> How is it that a man who feared religious persecution could hop on a plane for Tehran, pick up some real Iranian passports, and then fly back into this country without any fear of being detained by Iranian officials? This doesn't make much sense and I wouldn't be surprised if there was something more going on here. This account is particularly intriguing in light of the information we have learned about the Iranian-backed Hezbollah's smuggling operations south of the border. thomasjoscelyn.blogspot.com kvoa.com rantburg.com thomasjoscelyn.blogspot.com

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