Missing Man: The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran by Barry Meier

Author:Barry Meier [Meier, Barry]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw
ISBN: 9780374712792
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2016-05-02T12:00:00+00:00

13

The Nuclear Option

Chris and her children held a rally on March 9, 2008, at a Coral Springs restaurant called Wings Plus, a favorite of Bob’s, to mark the first anniversary of his disappearance and celebrate his sixtieth birthday. The event received some news media coverage, and after their meal, the family stood in the restaurant’s parking lot and sang “Happy Birthday.”

A day earlier, Chris had exchanged emails with Dawud Salahuddin, who had promised earlier to contact Iranian officials about her husband. In his reply, he told her he would have to wait a few more weeks to do so because Iranian government offices were closing for the Persian New Year, or Norooz.

This is an odd and painful “anniversary” so to speak and I just want you to be assured that I have not forgotten it or one word of what I have said to you. On correspondence, bear in mind that there are some 11 days to the end of the Iranian calendar year and everybody is trying to get their desk cleared for the next year which following a two-week holiday will begin on April 1, give or take a day. That is to say this is not a good time to put a sensitive letter on a person’s desk so I will wait till the holidays and then make the submission I spoke of but that will be to a high-ranking judicial authority and as I have said many times in the past, this is not a judicial matter, it is not a police matter—it is a political question between two mule-headed governments, each suffering its own version of the disorder “center of the world complex” and as the Swahili proverb has it, “When elephants fight the grass suffers” ‘grass’ here of course meaning people and specifically in this context the family of Robert and Christine Levinson.

I know this past year has not been a good one for me and perhaps it is a blessing that you have kids to keep you busy. My situation allows for too much introspection and too much of anything is not good. Be aware too that our communications are read by interested parties besides us on both sides. Over here, I was told prior to meeting you to stay away and again last week was called in and given what I took as indirect but genuine threats. But not to worry it is simply not in me to be afraid of men. Don’t want to get melodramatic but that is where I sit in all this and I am comfortable with that probably because discomfort had been a major theme of my adult life so bureaucratic nonsense does not move me very much and I have simply seen too much real mayhem to be fearful of the same—especially when I have done no moral or criminal action.

This started out as a just to let you know line but then I got carried away a bit. Forgive me for that. Hope your demonstration

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