While the international community, including the Trump administration, has rightly concentrated on Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and its destabilizing role in regional conflicts like Yemen, Tehran’s exploitation of Western citizens as hostages has received comparatively less attention.
Hostage-taking by Iran is hardly a recent phenomenon.
It began as early as November 1979 — when American diplomats were captured by the Islamic Republic — and has remained a key element of the regime’s statecraft ever since.
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