Washington The United States on Monday rejected Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's suggestion to release Iranians by exchanging with two U.S. climbers who were arrested, showed Washington is still pressing the Islamic state.Ahmadinejad visited New York to attend the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN). U.S. increase tensions with Iran when senior U.S. officials told the public that economic sanctions had weakened given the Iranian leader.Opening his visit, Ahmadinejad attended the interview on Sunday and demanded the U.S. release the eight citizens of Iran as a "humanitarian gesture" after the Islamic state's freeing of U.S. climbers, Sarah Shourd.A spokesman for the U.S. State Department, Mark Toner, reject it.
"We just said there was no similarity between these people are those who have been indicted or are in litigation with the climbers who crossed the unmarked border, and also still not yet been charged," Toner said to reporters, as reported by AFP.Shourd (32) returned to the U.S. after being arrested more than a year, but his climbing partner were arrested.
The climbers said they had strayed into Iran in July 2009 in a trip to Kurdistan, Iraq. But they do suspect the Iranian government of spying.Toner said he did not know if Iran has already shown a list of the prisoners. Iranian media reported the U.S. detained dozens of Iranians, some of which were arrested in another country at the request of Washington.
In interviews with U.S. television stations, ABC, Ahmadinejad regret because Iran "has not received a response" from the United States after the liberation Shourd.Toner said the U.S. back felt "very, very relieved and pleased that Sarah Shourd're back," and asked Iran to free two other climbers - Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal. (AFP)
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