Iranian presidential candidate: Fix economy by taking 1,000 Americans hostage
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Mohsen Rezaei, a conservative candidate for the Iranian Presidency, said in a recent interview that his plan to boost the country’s ailing economy was to kidnap 1,000 Americans and demand several million dollars in ransom per hostage.
Iranian journalist and activist Masih Alinejad posted a video of Rezaei’s statement to Twitter.
“This is surreal. Mohsen Rezaei candidate for Iran presidential elections said he’d take 1000 more American hostages to boost iran’s economy. For every hostage he’d ask several (million dollars) as a solution to Iran’s failing economy,” she tweeted along with the…
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