From WSJopinion: We’ve been forgiving of prisoner swaps. But rewarding Iran with money for hostages amounts to financing its malign activities and encouraging it to take more American prisoners.
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Readers of a certain age will remember the uproar when the Reagan Administration was caught trying to trade arms for hostages with Iran. Well, the Biden Administration seems prepared to hand over $6 billion to Iran’s ruling mullahs in return for five Americans it has taken prisoner to get precisely this kind of ransom. Iran keeps raising the price for its hostage-taking, and the U.S. keeps paying it.
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