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Reza Valizadeh, an American journalist being held inside Iran's notorious Evin Prison since 2024, shared a recording where he detailed the conditions of the facility and the health of another imprisoned American, Kamran Hekmati. Now, as the Trump administration looks to end the war in Iran, Valizadeh's lawyer Ryan Fayhee says it's essential that President Trump prioritize the release of wrongfully detained Americans in his negotiations with Iran.

A former American hostage held nearly six years in Iran's Evin Prison is warning that the U.S.-Iran war could make detained Americans more valuable — and more endangered — as Tehran's bargaining chips. Morad Tahbaz, an Iranian American conservationist released in 2023 as part of a Qatar-mediated prisoner exchange, told Fox News Digital that hostages are "just a commodity from Iran's perspective to be used at the right time." He spent his first two years in solitary confinement inside the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps intelligence facility — a small cell beneath a light that never turned off, allowed out only twice daily for 10 minutes, blindfolded every time. Tahbaz says that Western governments have done nothing meaningful to deter the regime's hostage-taking practice, which he says has continued since the 1979 revolution.