$1.2 Billion is the bar which the Biden Administration set.  “U.S. says Iranian-American journalist held in Iran as tensions grow after Israeli attack on country,” The Hindu, 11-3-24.  Iran detained Reza Valizadeh, a former employee for U.S. government-funded broadcaster “Radio Farda, an outlet under Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty that’s overseen by the U.S. Agency for Global Media. In February 2024, he wrote on the social platform X that his family members had been detained in an effort to see him return to Iran.”  …  “Since the 1979 U.S. Embassy crisis, which saw dozens of hostages released after 444 days in captivity, Iran has used prisoners with Western ties as bargaining chips in negotiations with the world. In September 2023, five Americans detained for years in Iran were freed in exchange for five Iranians in U.S. custody and for $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets to be released by South Korea.”

“After a member of the Basij allegedly assaulted her, attempting to tear off her clothes, the student began to protest by stripping down to her underwear and walking around the Islamic Azad University’s Science and Research Branch.”  See “Iranian forces abduct woman over protest against harassment,” Medya News, 11-3-24.

It turns out that Reza Valizadeh has been held for months.  “US-Iranian journalist believed to have been detained in Iran,” Guardian, 11-3-24.

“US blames Assad’s reliance on Russia, Iran for loss of Aleppo control,” Ynet, 11-3-24.