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Amidst all the news about gas prices and weather forecasts for this Thanksgiving week, Monday’s morning and evening newscasts on ABC and NBC found no time to mention that Washington Post reporter and U.S. citizen Jason Rezaian had been sentenced by Iran’s Revolutionary Court to an unspecified prison term after being detained in July 2014.
A dual citizen in both countries, Rezaian had spent the past three years as The Post’s Tehran correspondent before being arrested by the ruthless Islamic regime for supposedly spying against Iran for the U.S. Iranian state media did not disclose on Sunday the terms for which Rezaian had been convicted of.