Ahmadinejad's cameraman seeks asylum

[daze23]

NYC lawyer: Iranian cameraman was worried about going back to Iran over safety concerns - The Washington Post

The lawyer for an Iranian cameraman who accompanied President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the U.S. for the U.N. General Assembly and is seeking asylum said Tuesday that his client did so because he was concerned for his safety if he went back to Iran.

Paul O’Dwyer is representing Hassan Gol Khanban, who is in his 40s and has been a videographer with the Iranian News Agency for years. He has traveled abroad with Ahmadinejad before.

O’Dwyer said his client had been asked to do things by the Iranian presidential delegation that he had refused to do, and was concerned about what would happen upon returning to Iran, which prompted his defection.

“He was feeling threatened because of what he thought would happen when he went back,” O’Dwyer said in an interview with The Associated Press. “There were demands made on him by the presidential detail while he was here to do things that he did not want to do. He was obviously very, very concerned about what the repercussions to him would be when he went back to Iran for disobeying those orders.”

O’Dwyer said his client’s wife and two young children have left Iran, as well. Khanban “is very, very concerned obviously about his family. His immediate family who have left Iran, and his extended family who are still in Iran, and obviously he is concerned for himself,” he said.

O’Dwyer said an application for Khanban’s asylum has been submitted to the Department of Homeland Security’s Citizenship and Immigration Services.

 

[88m3]

I wonder if it involved taking pictures of sensitive areas of my city...

 

[Chris.B]

Iranians think we are stupid.

The b!tchass needs to go back and read "spying for dummies".

 

[Kings County]

he wanted him to take pics of landmarks

 

[TLOL is back]

he wanted him to take pics of landmarks

No, Iran would never do that. Iran is a rational state, and the west are evil white devils who just look for excuses to kill innocent brown people like Ahmedinijad.

 

[RadaMillz]

Fuking piece of trash!

You ride with ur nation no matter what specially at critical times like now but what does this benedict Arnold do? He back stabs his people, his fellow country men and spits in the face of his president because he wants to live in america, consume alcohol and have sex with legions of blondes regardless of his marriage status. I hope he gets handed back to the regime and from there straight to the infamous dungeons.

 

[The Real]

Fuking piece of trash!

You ride with ur nation no matter what specially at critical times like now but what does this benedict Arnold do? He back stabs his people, his fellow country men and spits in the face of his president because he wants to live in america, consume alcohol and have sex with legions of blondes regardless of his marriage status. I hope he gets handed back to the regime and from there straight to the infamous dungeons.

Is this how you think the West works? No wonder you live here.

 

[RadaMillz]

Is this how you think the West works? No wonder you live here.

Listen u are probably a young guy, I have been here my whole life and know how people specially in that part of the world think and act. I may not take part in the fuccery but I promise u all traitors have the same traits. If the guy is granted asylum he will change his name to thomas or Henry, dye his hair and try his best to appease whites even when getting shytted on, its inferior complexes and I seen it happen countless times.

 

[zerozero]

actually I immediately thought was basically a way to get permanent residence too

but who knows... there might be something he's legit worried about

 

[zerozero]

so he was basically recruited by the CIA last year

Defecting Iranian cameraman brings CIA priceless film of secret nuclear sites

 

[TLOL is back]

so he was basically recruited by the CIA last year

Defecting Iranian cameraman brings CIA priceless film of secret nuclear sites

Debka is highly unreliable.

 

[Mowgli]

They have no shortage of rooms for asylum.

 

[Mook]

so he was basically recruited by the CIA last year

Defecting Iranian cameraman brings CIA priceless film of secret nuclear sites

and the cia is just gonna let this leak to the press?

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[MikelArteta]

 

[T'Kuvma Da Unforgettable]

surprised it took this long for someone to post this