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US is pure evil: Ex-detainee Iranian mother

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Iranian national Shahrzad Mir-Qolikhan, who spent five years in US detention from 2007 to 2012, says she is now convinced that the United States is an “evil” state.

Mir-Qolikhan made the remarks in the eighth and final episode of the Press TV documentary titled “Memories of a Witness: Inside US Federal Prisons,” where she recounts her ordeals in US.

“What I know from America, it’s just evil. Nobody can convince me that America is a good country. I have seen nothing but evil,” the 36-year-old mother of twin girls said.

Mir-Qolikhan said the US government must stop deceiving others, adding that “with wars and animosities,” Washington “will get nowhere.”

“Shame on you that you are so wicked,” she said.

Mir-Qolikhan, however, said that she did not seek “revenge” against the US government for all her sufferings there.

In the previous episodes of the documentary, Mir-Qolikhan had detailed some of the abuse she had suffered in American prisons.

Also pointing to the poor sanitary conditions there, Mir-Qolikhan, noted that all kinds of diseases were rampant in US federal jails.

Mir-Qolikhan was detained in the US on charges of attempting to smuggle night vision goggles to Iran.

Her former husband, Mahmoud Seif, had allegedly tried to export night vision goggles to Iran from Austria. In an earlier episode of the program, Mir-Qolikhan explained that she had accompanied Seif to Austria, where she served as his interpreter in 2004.

According to Mir-Qolikhan, she was arrested in the Austrian capital of Vienna based on a request from the US government and was held in a dreaded detention center in the Austrian capital for 28 days before she was released after the US government failed to provide any evidence of wrongdoing against her.

In the US, she was detained and sentenced to five years in prison by a Florida federal court in the absence of her husband.

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