Με τον Ιάσονα είμαστε αγαπημένοι φίλοι. με κρασί και μπύρες και μεζέδες, κέδρους του λιβάνου και μαγικά χαλιά. Αγωνιώ από το Σάββατο. Σήμερα τον περίμενα. Δεν ενοχλώ τους δικούς του, φαντάζομαι πως περνούν, μαθαίνω όμως τα πάντα από τον πλησίον αγαπημένο αδελφό μου. Δεν θα έρθει. ακόμη.

Ένα κείμενο (στα αγγλικά από τον αγαπητό Μενέλαο Τζαφάλια) εξηγεί γιατί.

UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband hampers release of Anglo-Greek journalist imprisoned in Iran

Athens, Thurday 25 June
UK foreign secretary David Miliband earlier today scuppered efforts by the Greek embassy in Tehran to ensure the release of a
British-Greek freelance journalist who is being held by Iranian authorities on charges of “underground activities”.

Iason Athanasiadis, aka Jason Fowden, holds dual British and Greek nationality and was travelling in Iran under a Greek passport. He was arrested last week as he was about to leave the country, after covering the contested presidential election and its aftermath.

According to sources close to his family, Athanasiadis was this afternoon about to be released from prison and deported from Iran when local authorities took him back into custody.

It is highly probable that the Iranians’ change of mind was the direct result of David Miliband’s attempt to claim credit for Athanasiadis’ imminent release, as evident from interviews Miliband gave to the BBC and Sky News.

In an interview to Sky News on Thurday morning, Miliband said that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) would “certainly be making representations about his [Athanasiadis'] welfare as for any journalist of, with British links or British citizenship who is taken, taken in to custody.”

According to a Facebook support group set up by Athanasiadis’ family and friends, his British father George Fowden and his Greek mother Polymnia Athanasiadis made it clear that they preferred Greece and not the United Kingdom to “exercise its diplomatic protection over their son Iason”.

In a public statement published on the Facebook page and released to international news agencies in Athens, Athanasiadis’ parents said: “Iason is a dedicated reporter, photographer and film-maker who grew up in Greece and regards himself as Greek…He is legally entitled to another passport but he has never seen himself as anything other than Greek.”

Iason Athanasiadis is one of two foreign journalists arrested in Iran after a government crackdown on independent reporting.

Athanasiadis was covering the election and its aftermath for the GlobalPost news site, the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting and the US newspaper The Washington Times.

The UK Labour Government and the FCO have recently been heavily criticised over the way they handled the case of two British hostages kidnapped in Iraq in 2007. The remains of their bodies were last week passed to the British embassy in Baghdad.

Ο  Ιάσονας λέγεται Αθανασιάδης γιατί το επέλεξε.

όμως, είναι παλληκάρι, δεν ανησυχώ. απλώς βάζω σειρά για αγκαλιά.

υγ Είχαμε κάνει μαζί παλιότερα μια συνέντευξη για τη lifo και ύστερα μια συνέντευξη για το μπλογκ στο μπλόγγερ,που νομίζω αξίζουν τον κόπο.