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Tentative Tehran-Washington Hostage Deal May Be Sign of Movement on Iran Nuclear Program

The emerging details show this is ‘not a standard operation,’ a former hostage in Iran, Xiyue Wang, tells the Sun.

AP/J. Scott Applewhite, file
In May, President Biden’s senior Middle East adviser, Brett McGurk, pictured at the Capitol in October 2019, traveled to Oman at the same time that Iran’s top nuclear negotiator, Ali Bagheri Kani, was there. AP/J. Scott Applewhite, file
BENNY AVNI
BENNY AVNI

A tentative deal for the release of five Iranian-Americans held hostage in Iran in return for a $6 billion payment could augur larger, perhaps silent agreements between Washington and Tehran over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. 

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BENNY AVNI
BENNY AVNI

Benny Avni is a columnist who has published in the New York Post, WSJOpinion, The Daily Beast, Newsweek, Israel Radio, Ha’Aretz, and others. Once New York Sun, always New York Sun.

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