You were warned about crossing the border yet you did it anyway. Why? Scouting out routes to infiltrate Iran so that assassins and saboteurs could follow? More than likely. Quit with the lame excuses about being the poor mistreated Jew.

...but they obviously did not know they were Palestinian Solidarity Movement activists. Or, they suspected they were scouting out routes for Palestinian terrorists.

Yes...this is how countries send spies to check infiltration routes....I suppose they haven't heard of satellite photos. Shhh...let's not tell them. Your idiocy is showing and if you are a world citizen it is a telling sign of why the world is in such trouble.

Why do Jews keep tempting fate. Why visit countries that are openly hostile to you? Is it nostalgia for where ancestors lived? If so, I'm sorry but that ancestry is no longer accessible. In it's place, fundamentalism and anti-semitism reside. Heck, even in western democracies it's sometimes not safe to be openly Jewish or Zionist i.e. France. Please I beg you all, I hate seeing these stories of Jews going to Egypt and Iran and so on and so forth and getting held/kidnapped/etc...

What on earth were they doing there? Did the world run out of safer places to hike? Something smell fishy.

He's very lucky Iran is a civilized country. Why don't you travel to Syria and try crossing the border with Israel? You'll be killed in an instant,Jew or not,no questions asked. stop whining.

who accidently strayed over the Iranian border from northern Iraq during a hiking trip (...)"] 70% likelihood that they are spies, 30% that they are complete idiots. However, they should be grateful to Iran that they were released so quickly and didn't get the punishment they deserved.

Sorry, but you are very much wrong. Israel dad returned border crossers from Lebanon and Syria within less than a week in dozens of case in the past 10 years alone. Israel also treats in it's hospitals for free many Syrian that are crossing iligaly to get medical help, they still get it than returned safely. Iran had NO real reason to snatch these people, they WERE TOURISTS, yet they were taken into isolation by these savages.

is so true. I have not seen it this way before.

You are either an extraordinary jackass or extremely paranoid -- or some combination of the two -- but I can assure you that the State of Israel does not use non-Farsi speaking American graduate students to gather intelligence about Iran. Moreover, it is made quite clear that the three crossed the border inadvertently (trust me; no normal American would willingly visit Iran). Finally, the author and her then-fiancé (now husband) -- are not Jewish. In sum, you have proven yourself to be (i) extraordinarily stupid, (ii) deeply paranoid, (iii) functionally illiterate and (iv) grievously anti-Semitic. One does wonder why you habituate an Israeli news website.

...9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, anti-Zionist global terror, and now Israel wants Americans to fight in Syria, and Iran, so Israel can steal more land.

what anyone was doing in Northern Iraq in 2009 Let alone a group of Tourists 'hiking' Particularly when most nations were telling their citizens not to go anywhere near Iran, Iraq. Particularly when you consider British and American hostages were still missing in 2009. Something is not quite right about their story, It is likely Josh Fattal was hired by Mossad and used the other two as cover

the people of persia cannot count on the europeans or the obama regime to help in their liberation from the totalitarian genocidal shia terror regime.

Because honestly....there's other explanation.

your confusing your Hate Fantasies, with reality AGAIN. Masalami Gochba

Rachel Cory,, He&Co counted on hero welcome in Iran, crazy mullahs were an "imperialist and Zionist prop " to them

Civilized countries do not execute drug addicts (drug addiction is a disease) and homosexuals (homosexuality is not a disease). Q.E.D., Iran is not civilized. Just ask the Zoroastrians and the Bahai'i, for starters. You live in the Netherlands. They're not terribly civilized either -- just check their sordid history during the Second World War. No wonder you have such a warped view of what constitutes civilized society. You wouldn't recognize one if you tripped over it, so please shut up.

YOU SHISTER TO NO 7.

I am planning a hiking trip on the Iran/Iraq border is there anything interesting to see? I am told that a Iranian guard dresses in drag to alleviate the boredom at one border post. Does anyone know which one?

Unknowing Stooges Of The Israeli In The Group. They didn't even know what was going on. And they were Palestinian activists. The Mossad liked that even better. They didn't speak Farsi. That's the beauty of it. Stupid bumbling Americans go for a walk and wind up in Iran. Trouble is they were told not to go to the border yet they did it anyway. Helloooo ....Earth to Sarah... Is anyone there? You don't need to speak Farsi to do recon work Sarah. Get a clue.

Seriously?

As stupid as these hikers may have been, your posts show that you win first prize for idiocy. And you prove it brilliantly. Mazel Tov.

Sounds like this is a book promotion or a B movie. As I remember these 3 hikers were lefties and no friend of America or Israel. The stary eyed left dies very hard and, I don't think that this boy has yet to get it out off his system.

a cosmo polit (citizen of the world) stalin the anti-Semite,called Jews,cosmo polits,and as such were a danger to his tyrannical regime,being primitive,you never heard the term cosmo polit.