Siamak Namazi was held in Iran’s notorious Evin prison for nearly eight years before the $6bn prisoner swap on Monday
An American citizen freed in a complex exchange deal after being imprisoned for nearly eight years inhas urged the Biden administration to launch a “gamechanging global endeavour” to end the Islamic regime’s longstanding practice of holding foreign nationals hostage.
However, Namazi – himself a dual national and the longest-held of the five detainees after being imprisoned for 2,898 days, most of them inside Tehran’s notorious Evin prison – in a statement called for a radically different approach to deter state-sponsored hostage taking. “It is only if the free world finally agrees to collectively impose draconian consequences on those who use human lives as mere bargaining chips, that the Iranian regime and its ilk will be compelled to make different choices. Sadly, until then, we can anticipate more Americans and others falling victim to state hostage-taking.”
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