Hostage taking won’t stop until the U.S. takes greater means, i.e. Barbary Wars.  “Our never-ending Iranian hostage nightmare,” Kate Woodsome, op-ed, Washington Post, July 21, 2021.

Like mercenaries.  “‘Criminal contract hackers’: China, Iran, Russia enlist more high-tech gangsters for cyberattacks,” Ryan Lovelace, Washington Times, July 21, 2021.

“Exclusive: Is satellite footage of attacked Iran facility being blocked?,” Yonah Jeremy Bob, Jerusalem Post, July 21, 2021.