Reporter Jason Rezaian, three others released by Iran in prisoner swap with U.S.



CNN reports on the months-long diplomatic effort that led to today’s release of WaPo reporter Jason Rezaian and three other Iranian Americans who were held by Iran. This is another diplomatic success for the Obama administration, though the president’s detractors will never admit this.

But as inevitably as the night follows the day, Sen. Marco Rubio and Donald Trump quickly condemned the deal. They could not even wait until the released prisoners had cleared Iranian airspace before politicizing it.

The thing is, a lot of folks on the right are less interested in resolving conflicts than in having conflicts. They want to swagger and talk big and send other people’s children into battle and see if they can make the sand glow in the dark. they do not care how much harm they do. We need to understand that everyone does not share the same values and goals. Everyone certainly does not agree about what America stands for or ought to stand for. If they did, don’t you think they would agree that voting should be made easier, not harder?

As a group of young Iranians jubilantly chanted in Tehran last summer after the nuclear deal was announced, “Death to no one!”

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