Family of US Marine Held in Iran Calls on Obama Administration to Do More

The family of a U.S. Marine imprisoned in Iran since 2011 are frustrated that the Obama administration does not consider their son’s plight a high enough priority and are begging Iran’s supreme leader to show mercy and release him – in part because his father is dying of cancer. Behnaz Hekmati, the mother of imprisoned Marine veteran Amir Hektami, said on Fox News Channel's "On The Record with Greta Van Susteren, “Amir is innocent and we really miss him. And we need him. His father is sick, you know, he needs to come help his father. I need him, too.” Hekmati was arrested in August 2011 on allegations of spying for the CIA while visiting his grandmother and other relatives in Iran.