Diary shows how quest for love landed Navy vet in Iran jail

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Michael White was freed from Iran prison last June after being held on charges that he says were false. Now, the Navy veteran sharing his story with The Associated Press, including a handwritten journal that he wrote behind bars documenting his experience.

WASHINGTON — Michael White’s long-anticipated trip to Iran was already a disappointment. The love interest he’d gone to visit had stopped seeing him and he’d idled away hours in his hotel room by himself.On his final day, the car he and his tour guide were in was abruptly cut off by another vehicle with a passenger frantically waving his hands at them. He recalls three men getting out, one with a video camera, forcing him into their car and driving him to an office for questioning.

His 156-page manuscript is told from his own perspective with details that are vivid though sometimes difficult to corroborate. Iran’s mission to the United Nations did not respond to a request for comment. But according to the document, the men who arrested him pulled him into their car and drove him, blindfolded and handcuffed, to a building for questioning.

White’s decisions were undoubtedly risky: His Iran visits came despite that country’s hostile relationship with the U.S. He says he and his girlfriend got together in 2014 in Iran’s Kish Island, even though retired FBI agent Robert Levinson vanished from there years earlier. In jail, he writes, he was once awakened by a guard dumping a bucket of cold water on him. Another time, an interrogator snapped a whip on his toes as he completed a questionnaire. After White tossed water on a surveillance camera to get the guards’ attention, they pummeled him in the ribs and threw him to the floor, he writes.

He insists he’s not a spy and never posted any inappropriate photos of his girlfriend. He writes in his manuscript that he has indeed made social media posts about Iran but denies having disparaged Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

 

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Was it another set up by THE CLINTON FAMILY once again?

I belive exactly dick of what americans say about iran

Iran is a extortionist, terrorist regime

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Sorry, but it's hard to have sympathy for any westerner who consciously sets foot in Iran, or any other publicly unfriendly nation. Read the fucking room, or in this case country.

We knew Mike white would get up to something silly 110lbsofperp

Dear journal. This fucking chanting all day is getting on my last nerve

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