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This journalist, like the Biden Administration, has this issue exactly backwards.\u00a0 The hostages come first, not the JCPOA.\u00a0 The hostages being released are a precondition to talks.\u00a0 The Administration should have from the first, as I and others have advocated, required as a first step before holding talks with the Regime, that the human pawns be released and that Iran stop taking U.S. hostages.\u00a0 They also hold a known 11 others from other countries, and who knows how many of their own citizens they use to blackmail Iranians.\u00a0 So we will name again the four current U.S. hostages (there will be others unless we stop this insanity):\u00a0 Siamak Namazi, Baquer Namazi, Morad Tahbaz, and Emad Sharghi.\u00a0 See \u201cIran nuclear talks seen as best chance to free US detainees,\u201d<\/a> Laura Kelly, The Hill, July 2, 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran\u2019s New President and a Duplicitous Claim About Press Freedom,\u201d<\/a> Nisan Ahmado, Polygraph.info, July 2, 2021.<\/p>\n

Solid story about the problems and opportunities of PM Kadhimi trying to help his country be independent of Iran and the Regime.\u00a0 \u201cAnalysis:\u00a0 Iraq Is Trying to Escape the Iranian Cage,\u201d<\/a> Zvi Bar’el, op-ed, Haaretz, July 2, 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cMeet Iran’s US-sanctioned new judiciary chief,\u201d<\/a> Al Monitor, July 2, 2021.\u00a0\u00a0Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei named Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei the new judiciary chief.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat Iran\u2019s Failed Satellite Launch Likely Signals,\u201d<\/a> Peter Brookes, op-ed, Heritage, July 2, 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs U.S. Leaves Bagram Air Base, Russia, Iran and China Weigh Options in Afghanistan,\u201d<\/a> Tom O\u2019Connor, USNWR, July 2, 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cDozens of human rights violations in Iran\u2019s Kurdish areas: watchdog,\u201d<\/a> Layal Shakir, Rudaw, July 2, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This journalist, like the Biden Administration, has this issue exactly backwards.\u00a0 The hostages come first, not the JCPOA.\u00a0 The hostages being released are a precondition to talks.\u00a0 The Administration should have from the first, as I and others have advocated, required as a first step before holding talks with the Regime, that the human pawns … <\/p>\n

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