The United States has arbitrarily frozen Iranian bank accounts in the US that are worth billions of dollars of Iranian money, including massive amounts of money Iran paid for US arms that the US never delivered to Tehran.

These ‘hikers’ should have tried the Appalachian Trail
like Governor ‘Sparky’ from South Carolina. Not one tax
payer penny should be spent on these idiots.

Isn’t some haggling in order here?

People from western countries don’t go “hiking”, crossing the border from Iraq
into Iran - especially during a war.  If three Iranians illegally crossed the border
from Canada into the USA, do you think these people would be released?  No,
of course not.  This same question was posed to the Presidents Press Secretary
who of course avoided answering the question and began talking about
something else, attempting to twist the conversation to the USA’s favor.

Iran will gain nothing by releasing this spy.  You can’t negotiate with a
militaristic colonial power like the USA.  They will continue to threaten Iran and
its people and aid the murderers of Palestinians and other Arabs whom the
Iranians have helped with aid.

Iran needs to ally itself with Russia, China and others who don’t seek to destroy
it for Israel and their lobbying groups such as AIPAC and the the anti-
defamation league, which all have such a powerful hold on American foreign
policy.

Wow, 500,000! I bet they are hoping she doesn’t come back! Sounds like a hostage and ransom situation.