The heartbreaking rationale for not paying ransom to free US hostages

Published August 25, 2023 5:00am ET



To a person, Republicans welcomed the news this month that five Americans had been released from a notorious Iranian prison and transferred to a hotel in Tehran as the first step in a U.S. negotiation aimed at eventually bringing them home.

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