Freed Diplomat: US Seeking to Portray Iranian Diplomats as Terrorists http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9003022305

An Iranian diplomat who was released from the US military jails in Iraq along with four other diplomats two years ago said that he and the other Iranian inmates were under torture and various psychological pressures by the US forces to tell the media that Iran sponsors terrorist activities. "Americans sought to make a use of us for propaganda purposes. They used a carrot-and-stick policy to make us say that we were terrorists," Hassan Qaemi Heidari said. 

Heidari is one of the five Iranian diplomats kidnapped by the US forces in Iraq in early 2007. US forces on January 11, 2007 broke into the Iranian consulate in the Kurdish city of Arbil, and seized the consulate's computers, documents and staff.  Qaemi Heidari, Baqer Qabishavi, Abbas Hatami Kasavand, Mahmoud Farhadi and Majid Daqari were released from US custody in July, 2009 after over 30 months of detention. 

Heidari said that US interrogators used psychological pressuring and torturing to force inmates to confess that Iran trains and funds terrorists and smuggles weapons to Iraq. "Americans did all these in a bid to use us in their propaganda campaign (against Iran)," Qaemi Heidari concluded.