{"id":3024,"date":"2021-05-02T16:36:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T21:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=3024"},"modified":"2021-05-07T09:33:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T14:33:01","slug":"3024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/05\/02\/3024\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please, please, please.\u00a0 Do not pay ranson for hostages, and do not exchange prisoners for hostage.\u00a0 Simply tell Iran we\u2019re not doing anything until they release U.S. hostages and forswear taking any others.\u00a0 This is not rocket science.\u00a0 The President, Secretary, NSA, and others need to do this to break the hostage cycle.\u00a0 And if Iran won\u2019t change, I\u2019m reminded of the Barbary Pirates and the brave response by Dem. Pres. Thomas Jefferson.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/world-news-iran-europe-middle-east-business-af8595806655db90a1204ab88f05273c\"> \u201cUS denies Iran claims of prisoner deal; UK plays it down,\u201d<\/a> Jon Gambrell, Isabel Debre, and Matthew Lee, AP, May 2, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the example of the 1975 Helsinki Accords, which required human rights observance and helped bring about the Soviet collapse.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-u-s-can-support-freedoms-ferment-in-iran-11619986320\">\u201cThe U.S. Can Support Freedom\u2019s Ferment in Iran,\u201d<\/a> Ray Takeyh, op-ed, Wall Street Journal, May 2, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theridgefieldpress.com\/news\/article\/Alert-Iran-state-TV-quoting-anonymous-official-16145456.php\">&#8220;Alert: Iran state TV, quoting anonymous official, says deal made between US and Tehran for prisoner swap, release of $7 billion,\u201d<\/a> Ridgefield Press, May 2, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/us-denies-report-iran-prisoner-swap-7-billion\">\u201cUS denies report of Iran prisoner swap deal, release of $7B in frozen funds,\u201d<\/a> Peter Aitken, Fox News, May 2, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1852381\/world\">\u201cUK says Iran\u2019s treatment of Zaghari-Ratcliffe is \u2018torture\u2019,\u201d<\/a> Arab News, May 2, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I]t was not in Moscow\u2019s interests for Iran to normalize relations with the West.\u201d\u00a0 Another enabler.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/pressofatlanticcity.com\/opinion\/columnists\/russia-still-steering-iran-nuclear-talks-against-us-by-eli-lake\/article_bce99e89-9980-5d9a-9730-bf3736492363.html\">\u201cRussia still steering Iran nuclear talks against US,\u201d<\/a> Eli Lake, op-ed, Bloomberg News May 2, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollow the example of the 1975 Helsinki Accords, which helped bring about the Soviet collapse.\u201d\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-u-s-can-support-freedoms-ferment-in-iran-11619986320\">\u201cThe U.S. Can Support Freedom\u2019s Ferment in Iran,\u201d<\/a> Ray Takeyh, op-ed, Wall Street Journal, May 2, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/huge-blaze-reported-at-iranian-chemical-factory-near-qom-cause-unclear\">\u201cHuge blaze reported at Iranian chemical factory near Qom; cause unclear,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, May 2, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please, please, please.\u00a0 Do not pay ranson for hostages, and do not exchange prisoners for hostage.\u00a0 Simply tell Iran we\u2019re not doing anything until they release U.S. hostages and forswear taking any others.\u00a0 This is not rocket science.\u00a0 The President, Secretary, NSA, and others need to do this to break the hostage cycle.\u00a0 And if &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/05\/02\/3024\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2819,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2819"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3024"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3062,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions\/3062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}