Armenpress: Secretary Pompeo calls for release of US citizens detained in Iran

Secretary Pompeo calls for release of US citizens detained in Iran

10:16, 11 March, 2020

YEREVAN, MARCH 11, ARMENPRESS. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on Iran to release the US citizens who are currently detained, reports CNN.

“Reports that COVID-19 has spread to Iranian prisons are deeply troubling and demand nothing less than the full and immediate release of all American citizens”, Pompeo said.

“Our response will be decisive”, Pompeo warned in a statement.

At least four Americans are imprisoned in Iran, which has had more than 8,000 coronavirus cases and nearly 300 deaths.

Courts across Iran have granted eligible inmates furlough as part of the measures to contain coronavirus in the country.

Pompeo said the furlough of tens of thousands of prisoners demonstrated Iran's “ability to grant clemency and show mercy”.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS