“UN report reveals horrors of daily life for many in Iran,” Ephrem Kossaify, Arab News, March 9, 2021.

The Levinson family has it right, the Biden Administration has it wrong.  The Levinsons say, “We urge the Biden administration – the fourth presidential administration charged with holding Iran accountable – to make it clear to the Iranian regime that there will be no path to taking a seat at the table of civilized nations without resolving Bob’s case and sending him home,” the statement read.”  Instead, the hear “The Biden administration is working to open negotiations with Iran over efforts to rein in its nuclear program and prevent it from being able to build a nuclear weapon, but has said it views the return of hostages as a separate issue. “We don’t want to tie their fates to an issue that is complex and that is challenging and that may be a longer-term proposition,” State Department spokesperson Ned Price said in a press briefing last month, about separating the issue of American hostages held in Iran and the nuclear issue.”  These are not separate issues.  And until someone stands up to Iran and insists they clear the deck of hostages before any negotiations on anything, then the hostage taking will continue.  See “Blinken calls on Iran to answer for Levinson,” Laura Kelly, The Hill, March 9, 2021.

Good.  They are under direct orders of the Regime.  “State Department designates two Iranians for ‘involvement in gross violations of human rights’,” Tal Axelrod, The Hill, March 9, 2021.

“Iran’s top nuclear scientist discusses the potential for a nuclear deal with the U.S.,” Nick Schifrin and Reza Sayah, NPR, March 9, 2021.

“How Mossad turned the IAEA around on Iran with evidence – analysis,” Yonah Jeremy Bob, Jerusalem Post, March 9, 2021.