Republicans have been lockstep in their condemnation of recent Biden administration moves.
To a person, Republicans welcomed the news this month that five Americans had been released from a notorious Iranian prison and transferred to a hotel in Tehran as the first step in a U.S. negotiation aimed at eventually bringing them home.
When the outlines of the yet-to-be-completed deal leaked, the White House and State Department immediately went into spin mode. “No U.S. taxpayer dollars involved here,” Kirby said. “What we're talking about is the possibility of making that one account that has been in existence for several years more accessible to the Iranians … and there is an oversight mechanism that's already built into that process, so it's not ransom.”
Families, and even the hostages themselves, know that paying ransom is a counterproductive strategy, but they fear the alternative is indefinite confinement, usually in brutally harsh conditions. “The question is, then, what do you do? Do you let an innocent American citizen who's a father, a brother just die in a foreign prison? Do you do nothing to bring them home?” said Neda Sharghi, whose brother Emad is one of the five Americans Iran is using as a bargaining chip.
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