JASON REZAIAN, THE IRANIAN-AMERICAN journalist for the Washington Post who has been held as a political prisoner in Iran since summer of 2014, has been released in a historic prisoner swap between the US and Iran.
The swap is part of recent diplomatic efforts to diffuse the tensions between the two countries, and it comes on the heels of the recent Nuclear deal that ensures that Iran won’t develop the capacity to produce nuclear weapons. In return, economic sanctions have been lifted on Iran, and the country is going to be able to re-enter the global economy.
