WaPo outraged that Iran isn’t playing nice.

It’s good to know that America is respected in the world and that its capitulation to Iran isn’t being taken advantage of. I mean, after giving the Islamic Republic essentially carte blanche to pursue its nuclear ambitions, the Iranian regime wouldn’t ramp up its long-range ballistic missile tests and then, to rub salt in the wound, convict American journalists unlawfully held in the country on trumped up charges, would it?

Why yes, yes it would. [And they promise to destroy Israel while building nukes!]

Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, who has been imprisoned for over a year, has reportedly been convicted of espionage, along with a series of other charges yet to be revealed. What’s more, the Iranian judge hearing the California-born Rezaian’s case is apparently notorious for doling out “harsh sentences.”

News of a verdict in Tehran’s Revolutionary Court initially came early Sunday, but court spokesman Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei did not specify what the judgment was. In the State TV report late Sunday night, Ejei said definitively that Rezaian was found guilty.

Washington Post executive editor, Martin Baron is apparently shocked. Calling his employee’s guilty-verdict “an outrageous injustice.”

“Iran has behaved unconscionably throughout this case, but never more so than with this indefensible decision by a Revolutionary Court to convict an innocent journalist of serious crimes after a proceeding that unfolded in secret, with no evidence whatsoever of any wrongdoing,” Baron said in a statement

Really? Now, the mainstream media is surprised by the fact that the Iranian regime cannot be trusted and behaves deplorably?

Needless to say, Rezaian’s and other U.S. citizen’s unlawful imprisonment by Iran, and the administration’s failure to secure their release, is further proof of the president and secretary of state’s ineptitude in dealing with Islamists.

For those unfamiliar with the story, Rezaian is a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen who has been detained in Iran’s Elvin Prison since July 22, 2014. His family was denied access to his trial and the proceedings against the journalist have been shrouded in secrecy.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has repeatedly suggested a prisoner exchange in recent weeks. He has said Iran might push to expedite freedom Rezaian and two other Iranian-Americans if the United States released Iranian citizens convicted of sanctions violations. Saeed Abedini of Boise, Idaho, is a pastor imprisoned for organizing home churches. Amir Hekmati of Flint, Mich., is a former Marine who has spent four years in prison since his arrest during a visit to see his grandmother.

Yes, we all know how Rouhani’s word can be trusted and how effective a negotiator Sec. of State John Kerry is. We could say that it feels like 1979 all over again, but in fact, it’s far worse.

http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/shocking-iran-cant-be-trusted-convicts-american-journalist