{"id":2335,"date":"2007-04-04T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T09:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/04\/iran-to-free-the-british-hosta.html"},"modified":"2007-04-04T09:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T09:40:00","slug":"iran-to-free-the-british-hosta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/04\/iran-to-free-the-british-hosta.html","title":{"rendered":"Iran to free the British hostages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;ve been &#8220;pardoned&#8221; by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.  When I saw the email alert, I wondered how much it cost the British for the release of their people and then I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/04\/04\/AR2007040400334.html?hpid=topnews\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Islamic Republic News Agency also reported that Iranian personnel would be allowed to meet with five Iranian men taken by U.S. forces late last year in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I see that it cost us something.  Figures.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tag_list\">Tags: <span class=\"tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Iran\" rel=\"tag\">Iran<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Britain\" rel=\"tag\">Britain<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Mahmoud+Ahmadinejad\" rel=\"tag\">Mahmoud Ahmadinejad<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Iraq+war\" rel=\"tag\">Iraq war<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;ve been &#8220;pardoned&#8221; by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. When I saw the email alert, I wondered how much it cost the British for the release of their people and then I read this: The Islamic Republic News Agency also reported that Iranian personnel would be allowed to meet with five Iranian men taken by U.S. forces late&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-under-the-sun"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Iran to free the British hostages - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/04\/iran-to-free-the-british-hosta.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Iran to free the British hostages - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"They&#8217;ve been &#8220;pardoned&#8221; by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. 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