New York Sun: "Will Biden Pay Up for Hostages Held by Iran?"

Poblete: “if there is an agreement and just one U.S. hostage is left behind, it will be a failure.”

Iran uses hostage-taking as a tool of the state to advance Iran’s national interests. A barbaric practice technically banned by an international treaty, Iran is not the only country that uses unlawful detentions for political reasons. Cuba, Venezuela, Syria, China, and many other nations unjustly and illegally imprison westerners, or they convert lawf…