American who was wrongfully detained in Iran urges US citizens not to travel to country
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An American who was wrongfully detained in Iran joined with the State Department to warn US citizens not to travel to the country “under any circumstances” and urged those planning to go to “cancel your trip.”
An American who was wrongfully detained in Iran joined with the State Department to warn US citizens not to travel to the country “under any circumstances,” and urged those planning to go to “cancel your trip.” Emad Shargi was among five Americans freed in September 2023 as part of a wider deal between the US and Iran. He spent more than five years imprisoned there. In a video posted by State Department accounts on X Thursday, Shargi cautioned all Americans, including Iranian-Americans, not to visit. “Now is a particularly bad time to travel there. I know you may want to visit family and loved ones, but there is a very high risk of arrest and imprisonment by the Iranian regime,” he said. “Trust me, nothing is worth being tortured for and spending years of your life in filthy, dark Iranian jail cell.” “To anyone planning to travel to Iran, listen to me: cancel your trip,” he said. Shargi noted that he traveled to Iran to visit family in 2018 and was then arrested on false espionage charges.
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