UK – Iran International, May 22, 2025
The US State Department has appointed Iran hawk Xiyue Wang, held prisoner in Tehran for over three years on spy charges, as a senior adviser for Iran, Politico reported on Wednesday.
Wang, who has been outspoken about opposing nuclear negotiations with Iran, recently joined the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs.
Wang was held for 1,216 days in Tehran’s Evin Prison and released in 2019 in exchange for an Iranian scientist convicted in the US of violating sanctions.
He had traveled to Iran as a Princeton graduate student with permission from the Iranian foreign ministry before being arrested and imprisoned on espionage charges.
