Dr. Soleimani is being used as a political pawn by US neoconservatives – Kevin on Press TV

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Press TV interview with Kevin Barrett, VT Editor

Dr. Masoud Soleimani, who has been illegally imprisoned in the United States since October last year, is being used as a political pawn by US neoconservatives, Zionists who are hostile towards the Islamic Republic of Iran, according to Dr. Kevin Barrett.

Barrett said that Dr. Soleimani “should be protected by habeas corpus,” which is a writ requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court, especially to secure the person’s release unless lawful grounds are shown for his detention.

Barrett, an author, journalist and radio host with a Ph.D. in Islamic and Arabic Studies, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV while commenting on the year-long incarceration by police in the United States.



Dr. Soleimani’s family has condemned the imprisonment of the Iranian stem cell scientist as a “hostile” and “inhumane act” meant to pressure Iran’s government, calling for his immediate release.

Speaking during a press briefing at Press TV’s headquarters in Tehran on Tuesday, Soleimani’s wife, Dr. Mahnaz Rabeie, censured the US for keeping the scientist behind bars for an entire year without any fair trial.

Rabeie rejected a claim that her husband had been arrested for violating US sanctions against Iran, saying the incarceration was politically motivated.

PressTV- US jailing without trial of Iran scientist inhumane: Family

PressTV- US jailing without trial of Iran scientist inhumane: Family

Dr. Someilani’s family attend a news briefing organized by Press TV in Tehran to mark one year since the scientist was imprisoned in the US in the absence of a fair trial.

Commenting on this Dr. Barrett said, “Dr. Masoud Soleimani, who is a respected Iranian biological scientist, was lured to the United States in order to set him for a completely bogus arrest on false pretenses for supposedly violating sanctions on Iran.”

“And he has been held without any due process, essentially disappeared in this banana republic for a year now. His family is naturally in a kind of panic and suffering. And this is tremendous injustice. It is obviously purely political,” he stated.

“What he is accused of doing is not itself a violation of sanctions. He is accused of having been involved in bringing of a small amount of non-commercial biological material — with no weapons use whatsoever — to Iran, a small amount of experimental biological material and that for medical research, and medical materials like that are specifically excluded from Iran sanctions. So that’s probably why they are not bringing him to trial because they don’t have a case,” he noted.

“And it just illustrates how the rule of law has gone the wayside since the false flag event of September 11, 2001 which was specifically designed not only to create permanent hostility against the entire Middle East region on behalf of Israel but also to take down the United States constitution and the rule of law so that the gangster oligarchs can do anything they want without having to be worried about any legal issues,” he said.

“And so Dr. Soleimani who is a totally respected, an utterly clean man with a perfect record, no criminal record whatsoever, not even accused of doing anything involved in politics or US-Iranian relations, he is only accused of shipping a very small amount of experimental medical material for medical research with no possible nefarious usage. He’s being made a political pawn to this neoconservative hostility towards Iran, the neoconservative Zionists, who are allied with the Netanyahu Likudnic element of the Israeli power structure are dedicated to stir this endless hostility between the United States and Iran,” Dr. Barrett said.

“Dr. Soleimani should be protected by habeas corpus, that is you just can’t disappear people in a country that respects human rights; you have to charge them quickly with something and given the chance to defend themselves. And they are not doing that. They are just kidnapping him, presumably to try to put pressure on Tehran and possibly to use him in some kind of a prisoner swap,” he observed.

Dr. Soleimani arrived in the US on October, 22, 2018 with a visa issued upon an invitation by the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota to lead a research program on the treatment of stroke patients.

He was, however, arrested by the FBI, which had a secret indictment, upon arrival at the Chicago airport. His visa was canceled and he was transferred to a jail in Atlanta, Georgia.

PressTV-US jailing of top scientist ‘pressure tool against Iran’

PressTV-US jailing of top scientist ‘pressure tool against Iran’

The sanctions violation charges leveled by the US against Iranian stem cell scientist Dr. Masoud Soleimani are a mere “excuse” to justify his illegal imprisonment.

Soleimani’s whereabouts remained unknown for up to a week until the Chicago airport police claimed that the professor had returned to Iran on a Qatari flight, according to statement issued by his family on Tuesday.

Prosecutors have accused Soleimani, who works in stem cell research, hematology and regenerative medicine, and two of his former students of conspiring and attempting to export growth hormone vials from the US to Iran without authorization, in violation of American sanctions.

They had secretly obtained an indictment against Soleimani in June 2018, prior to his arrival on US soil.

Lawyers for the scientists say no specific license was required for the attempted transport because the hormones are medical materials and that bringing them to Iran for non-commercial purposes does not amount to exporting goods.

The hormone, which is a form of synthetic protein, is not banned in the US or Iran and is being used exclusively for medical research.

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  1. …lest we forget, it was Patton, MacArthur,and Eisenhower who led the charge against the starving veterans during the depression when they marched on Wash.DC and set up camp, demanding the “war bonus” that was promised to them. The house passed the bill to give it to them and the senate voted it down….Patton disobeyed orders and tore the camp down and sent the veterans on their way….the US army attacked our veterans….what a disgrace…..

  2. The U.S. today has degenerated into a criminal dictatorship following the illegal false flag attack on 9/11/01 by Israel aided by outlaws Bush, Cheney and the four star generals at the time. Following this false flag attack, the 535 whores in Congress, all on the take or being bribed by Israel, passed the totally illegal and unconstitutional improperly named Patriot Act obliterating the Constitution. All members of Congress, the four star generals who obviously stood down and failed to defend the Country, Bush Cheney, etc. are all traitors who should be standing in front of a firing squad and/or jailed for life. America is now The United States of Israel. Shame, shame, shame on all the whores involve in this massive crime against our country.

    • Watch and listen to former U.S. Marine Ken O’keefe at LAX in 2016 tell it like it is:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqPofDjY0og
      Why not invite him back to talk more on VT of how our country has degenerated into an Israeli Shithole? Watch this moving video while you can before it too is censored. Americans are unbelievably stupid and ignorant. They believe every lie told them by the Israeli controlled and owned lying media.

    • Two star General Donovan, former head of OSS in WWII, was a traitor who hired a military hit man to carry out the planned murder of General George S. Patton of WWII, the greatest General of WWII according to the German General Staff. The cowardly assassin ambushed General Patton and a colleague who were out on a bird hunt on a Sunday afternoon in Germany. Patton did not die at the scene was was finished off at the hospital. Even ike and his criminal henchmen were in on this crime. What would General Patton do today if he had not been murdered by our government in 1945? What actions would he take to carry out his oath to protect and defend our Constitution which has been gang raped by 535 Israeli bribed whores in Congress and the criminals in Israel? Whatever it is he would not lay around and do nothing would he? Americans do not deserve America today. They deserve to lose her because they are nothing but lazy cowards interested in sex and lies on television. They wouldn’t know truth if it slapped them in the face like Patton did to those soldiers in WWII but he should have done to Ike instead. Ike was a traitor to our country. He is another lie in lying history books.

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