So wait, we traded things for this guy, have no idea who he is, and then we’re told he decided to stay? Where is his picture, his family, the back story? Meanwhile Bob Levinson, 30+ year agent for the United States is left behind there.
Via ABC:
Until Saturday, the public had never heard of Nosratollah Khosravi-Roodsari, the American who elected to stay in Iran after his negotiated release this weekend.
Khosravi-Roodsari was never publicly reported being held in any Iranian prisons until after he was released in a historic prisoner exchange Saturday. Khosravi-Roodsari’s background and identity are now cloaked under a shroud of mystery.
In his remarks Sunday touting the exchange, President Obama glossed over Khosravi-Roodsari’s biography, only saying he, too, was “unjustly detained.”
“Two other Americans unjustly detained by Iran have also been released — Nosratollah Khosravi-Roodsari and Matthew Trevithick, an Iranian — who was in Iran as a student,” Obama said Sunday. “Their cases were largely unknown to the world, but when Americans are freed and reunited with their families, that’s something that we can all celebrate.”