Morocco: US-Iran Hostage Crisis Relived  · Global Voices
Amira Al Hussaini

“The Iranian government has arrested and jailed a fourth person with dual Iranian and American citizenships. His name is Ali Shakeri and he is a California businessman and founding member of UCI's Center for Citizen Peacebuilding. I am starting to put more credence in the theory that is floating around, and which one of my readers emailed me about: That Iran would like to trade these four Iranian American prisoners for the five Iranian diplomats abducted in Iraq in January,” explains Moroccan blogger Laila Lalami.