Iran's release of a Chinese-American graduate student Xiyue Wang signals the possibility that the regime may be willing to negotiate, at the very least, to release additional hostages — and perhaps on even larger issues, like nuclear arms (via CNNOpinion)
Samantha Vinograd is a CNN national security analyst. She is a senior adviser at the University of Delaware's Biden Institute, which is not affiliated with the Biden campaign. Vinograd served on President Barack Obama's National Security Council from 2009 to 2013 and at the Treasury Department under President George W. Bush. Follow her @sam_vinograd. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. View more opinion articles on CNN.
Americans abroad have too often become human bargaining chips. In places like Iran and North Korea, rogue regimes have used trumped up and unfounded charges to imprison Americans, kicking off years of complex negotiations with the US government. Sam VinogradBut from Otto Warmbier and other Americans released from North Korean prisons to Kevin King, who was released by the Taliban as part of a prisoner swap, Donald Trump's administration has brought Americans hostages home. And, on Saturday, Iran released American graduate student Xiyue Wang, who was imprisoned in Tehran for more than three years on suspicion of being a spy .
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