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Though spurious and malicious, he was accused of doing business illegally with a Kuwaiti company linked to two Iranian ones, establishing an Iranian bank and leasing company, filing false tax returns, impeding tax collections, and illegally securing citizenship by falsifying information under oath.
Though innocent of all charges, in April 2008, he was convicted for violating America's Iran embargo, omitting group membership information on naturalization forms, and income tax evasion.
Imprisoned, he was denied all rights, isolated without reason, dehumanized and punished for being a Muslim in America at the wrong time from the wrong country.
This time, justice was only delayed. In January 2010, Mousavi was released. He still awaited a Ninth District Court of Appeals decision pertaining to immigration charges. On May 5, 2010 it came, overturning a lower court's conviction. His web site Free Seyed Mousavi announced the news, saying:
"Seyed Mahmood Mousavi is a free man and as a result of the reversal, continues to be a legal citizen of the United States."
He and his family "sincerely thank (everyone) for (their) continued support" throughout his ordeal. Justice in the end prevailed. Others aren't as lucky.
As a result, they wrongfully languish in US prison hellholes for their faith, ethnicity and nationality, not any crimes they committed.
Mousavi's a free man to explain it. He's also someone this writer knows, admires, wrote about, and discussed on air.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at Email address removed .
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