Couple things. I don’t know who’s crazier, Bush or INEEDADINNERJACKET. Second, why is it ok for the US to scoop people up, not charge them with anything and answer to no one, yet when someone else does it, they demand they be released? I’m not saying these people are or are not spies, but you reap what you sow. And I’m guessing Iran will take the high road, and they’ll be treated better than anyone the U.S. has renditioned or been held as “enemy combatants.”

Iran today formally charged three Americans with espionage and endangering national security, the judicial spokesman said, in a move that widens Tehran’s clampdown against U.S. citizens.

The three are prominent Washington scholar Haleh Esfandiari, social scientist Kian Tajbakhsh of the Open Society Institute, and Parnaz Azima, correspondent for U.S.-funded Radio Farda. Iran announced over the weekend that it had wrapped up American spy networks and summoned the Swiss ambassador, who represents U.S. interests in Iran, to protest.

The State Department called on Tehran to immediately free the Americans. “These are individuals that have family ties to Iran [and] have done independent research and other kinds of civil society activities there for many years. They certainly pose no threat or challenge to the regime,” said spokesman Tom Casey.

The charges were lodged just a day after landmark talks between U.S. and Iranian diplomats in Baghdad that ended a diplomatic freeze that lasted nearly three decades. The issuance of formal charges indicates the high level of tension that remains between the two countries.

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