title: List of Iranian detainees at Guantanamo Bay
text: # List of Iranian detainees at Guantanamo Bay
  
  The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding 3 Iranian captives in Guantanamo.
  
  A total of 779 captives have been held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002. The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660. Only nineteen new captives, all "high value detainees" have been transferred there since the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush. As of July 2012, the camp population stands at approximately 168.
  
  ## Iranian captives acknowledged by the DoD
  
  | isn | name | arrival date | departure date | notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 555 | Abdul Majid Muhammed | 2002-05-05 | 2006-10-11 | The only Christian in Guantanamo. Accused of being a "watchman" for the Taliban. Describes the militiamen who captured him being enormously excited that they had captured a foreigner who could be sold for a bounty. Reports being a deserter, and a serious drug addict, and a street-level drug dealer. Following the ouster of the Taliban his dealer sent him to Afghanistan, rather than his regular couriers, in return for paying off his substantial drug debt. Reports his drug dealer had told him he had started to murder his children because he had not paid off his drug debt. |
  | 623 | Bakhtiar Bameri | 2002-06-18 | 2004-03-31 | |
  | 676 | Mohamed Anwar Kurd | 2002-06-12 | 2005-08-19 | Allegedly served on the front lines. Allegedly trained at an Afghan military camp. Allegedly tasked to assassinate Shia leaders back in Iran. |
  