From jrezaian: Families of Americans held hostage in Iran want Trump to negotiate
Christine Levinson, wife of former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who vanished in Iran in 2007, and Babak Namazi , the son of Baquer Namazi, who is being held in Iran, attend a hearing on Capitol Hill Thursday. By Jason Rezaian Jason Rezaian Global Opinions writer Email Bio Follow Global Opinions writer March 9 at 6:00 AM Relatives of Americans long held hostage in Iran gave heartbreaking testimony to members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday, as U.S.
The U.K.’s foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, on Thursday took the extraordinary step of providing diplomatic protection to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, an Iranian-born British citizen and aid worker employed by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, who has been imprisoned in Iran for nearly three years on ridiculous charges that she was working in coordination with foreign intelligence services to overthrow Iran’s clerical ruling system.
The British action also shines an uncomfortably bright light on the fact that Washington has so far failed to bring home the six or more currently detained Americans home from Tehran. — Secretary Pompeo March 8, 2019 Frustration is mounting. Halfway through President Trump’s first term in office, no Americans have been released from Iranian custody. The testifying family members and lawmakers alike acknowledged the urgent need for a channel to talk to Tehran, even if limited solely to this issue.
“I am absolutely no closer than I was when he first went missing on March 9, 2007,” Christine Levinson said. “I hold the Iranian government responsible, but I believe the U.S. government is at fault as well. After three very different U.S. presidential administrations, we are no closer to bringing Bob home than we were when we started. We have nothing.”
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