No foreign power has 'wrongfully detained' more Americans than the Islamic Republic of Iran.
, means Iran is responsible for holding nearly one-third of all U.S. citizens and permanent residents who are held hostage abroad. But the cells holding the living victims have been emptied out and the hostages, presently being held under guard in an Iranian hotel, will soon be reborn in freedom.
For the hostages, their families, and those, like me, who understand the horrors they have endured, this is cause for tremendous celebration. They are innocent victims left in large part to fend for themselves. And for regime leaders whose pockets were just stuffed with $6 billion, it is also cause for tremendous celebration. Their gambit paid off.
Pro-regime Iranians stage a rally outside the former US Embassy on the anniversary of the US-Iran Hostage Crisis, on Nov. 4, in Tehran, Iran. On Nov. 4, 1979, more than 50 U.S. diplomats and citizens were held hostage after a group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. The takeover triggered a 444-day hostage crisis and break in diplomatic relations that continues to this day.
Paying Iran to free the hostages undoubtedly increases the threat level against all Americans worldwide, especially since Tehran has started to kidnap and rendition its critics outside its borders. Iran even attempted toMasih Alinejad, an Iranian-American journalist and vocal critical of the regime, in New York.
In June 2020, Iran unsuccessfully plotted to kidnap Alinejad from her home in Brooklyn before renditioning her to Iran via Venezuela. Had the plot been successful, the regime undoubtedly would have wanted a significant return—similar to how it obtained the release of a convicted terrorist, Asadollah Assadi—in
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