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Read my story with @joel_schectman from August about how a series of U.S. presidents, Republican and Democrat, have tried and failed to end Iran's practice of taking Americans prisoner reuters.com/investigates/s…
As we wrote, the Trump administration faces the troubling reality that there is no easy way to stop Iran from taking Americans prisoner, a tactic the Islamic Republic has used since 1979.
Trump made a bold promise when running for office: that Iran won't take prisoners if he is president. He didn't deliver. At least one US citizen (Morad Tahbaz) has been imprisoned since Trump took office, and several others imprisoned during the Obama admin are still in jail
Of course, Americans aren't the only targets of arrests by Iranian authorities. @bozorgmehr revealed last year that Iran's Revolutionary Guard had arrested at least 30 dual nationals - mostly Europeans - in two years, twice as many as was previously known reuters.com/article/us-ira…
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I haven’t read the Abramson book but descriptions I’ve seen online (no citations in text, but apparently sources listed in back) reminded me of a story I did at the @yaledailynews in 2007 on similar problems in a Yale law prof’s book yaledailynews.com/blog/2007/10/0…
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This is surreal for me to even type, but I'm on @ThisAmerLife this weekend for a segment produced by the amazing @zchace about the tiny library on the U.S.-Canada border where Iranian families separated by the travel ban have been reuniting thisamericanlife.org/664/the-room-o…
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