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Iran has released five Americans in what is an apparent prisoner swap. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks to foreign affairs analyst Robin Wright about the exchange and the diplomatic gamble.
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Iran has released five Americans in what is an apparent prisoner swap. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks to foreign affairs analyst Robin Wright about the exchange and the diplomatic gamble.
Robin Wright, a joint fellow at the Wilson Center and the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, said it's not completely clear why Trevithick was detained. Trevithick was Wright's research assistant at the Wilson Center in 2009, and the two have remained friends, she said.
Fourteen months ago, President Obama authorized a top-secret, second diplomatic channel with Tehran to negotiate freedom for Americans who had disappeared or been imprisoned in Iran. It was a high-risk diplomatic gamble.
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Ten U.S. sailors were released after being held overnight by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. They were seized when two boats drifted into Iranian waters due to faulty navigation systems. State Secretary John Kerry credited the speedy resolution to improved relations. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner reports on the near-crisis and Judy Woodruff talks to The New Yorker’s Robin Wright.
Ten U.S. sailors were released after being held overnight by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. They were seized when two boats drifted into Iranian waters due to faulty navigation systems. State Secretary John Kerry credited the speedy resolution to improved relations. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner reports on the near-crisis and Judy Woodruff talks to USIP's Robin Wright.
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