{"id":1423,"date":"2019-01-30T18:25:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T18:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2019-01-30T18:25:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T18:25:39","slug":"mother-of-u-s-navy-veteran-held-in-iran-worried-about-her-sons-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=1423","title":{"rendered":"Mother of U.S. Navy veteran held in Iran worried about her son&#8217;s health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"cbsNewsVideo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/mother-of-american-held-in-iran-fears-for-her-sons-health\/\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>January 29, 2019 \u2013 CBS . <\/em><em>Phoenix<\/em>\u00a0\u2014The mother of a\u00a0 veteran detained in Iran is calling for his immediate release.\u00a0Michael White, 46, has been in an Iranian prison for more than six months.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Joanne White said she prays every day that her son Michael will be freed from prison in Iran before it&#8217;s too late. She worries his recurring cancer could come back and he could die.<\/p>\n<p>White said the Navy veteran was on his third trip to Iran last July. Though he was married, he was visiting his girlfriend he had met online, when he disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I knew he wasn&#8217;t dead. I felt that in my heart. But I didn&#8217;t think he was OK,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly five months later, she learned he was in prison in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad. But she hasn&#8217;t gotten any phone calls from her son.<\/p>\n<p>An Iranian judicial official said last week White is being sued by a private plaintiff, referring to a complaint by a citizen, not the government. The official did not rule out possible &#8220;security-related charges.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Iran has incarcerated other Americans on charges of espionage, which they have denied.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, he&#8217;s not a spy, not at all,&#8221; White said.<\/p>\n<p>She wants the U.S. to negotiate with Iran for her son&#8217;s release. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; the U.S. is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/transcript-secretary-of-state-mike-pompeo-on-face-the-nation-january-13-2019\/\">using &#8220;every tool&#8221; in its arsenal<\/a>\u00a0to free Americans detained all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think my son&#8217;s life is worth a lot. It&#8217;s worth a lot to me,&#8221; White said. &#8220;I love him and I&#8217;m praying for him. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;d tell him. And stay strong, please stay strong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 2019 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 29, 2019 \u2013 CBS . Phoenix\u00a0\u2014The mother of a\u00a0 veteran detained in Iran is calling for his immediate release.\u00a0Michael White, 46, has been in an Iranian prison for more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[154,461,263,462],"class_list":["post-1423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-jason-rezaian","tag-michael-white","tag-nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe","tag-u-s-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1424,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions\/1424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}