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The Fruits of a Poisoned Iran Deal Spread Across the Middle East
by Joshua Sharf
January 20, 2016

We can all be grateful for the safe return of five American prisoners (please don’t call them “hostages”) from Iranian jails.  Their families should celebrate their homecoming, and we should all be thankful they’ll be able to resume normal lives, as something other than unwilling guests of the mullahs. Even as the administration was trumpeting both their return and the implementation of the Iran deal, the first fruits of that poisoned deal became apparent…Yesterday, it was reported that Iranian-backed Shiite militias operating in the Dora neighborhood of Baghdad seized three Americans. That didn’t take long. As of this writing, the Iraqi Army was reportedly searching the area, but had not yet found them. READ MORE