President Trump has made the decision to withdraw from the JCPOA and has left the door open to discussions about a new agreement with Iran. The pros and cons of this decision will continue to be debated in the days to come.  But unbelievably, in all the public commentary to date about what’s at stake with any new Iran deal, there has been essentially no mention of the Americans who are being imprisoned by the Iranian regime.

My father, Robert Levinson, is the longest held hostage in US history. He was taken while visiting Kish Island, Iran, in March 2007. Since then he has had no contact with the outside world, and he and my family—my mother, my six brother and sisters and I—have been living a nightmare no one should ever experience. For the past 11 years, we have been unable to get any acceptable response from the Iranians as to what happened to my father, and we feel that our efforts to get him home are at a complete stalemate. We are desperate for justice and mercy, and day after day, the Iranians and their Supreme Leader fail to provide it.