Counterbalance

Ep. 10: Xiyue Wang on Being an Iranian Hostage


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Princeton graduate student Wang Xiyue sat down with Mike and Marshall to discuss how being held hostage in the notorious Evin prison in Iran changed his worldview. In 2016 the Iranian authorities convicted him, on trumped up charges, of spying, purely in order to use him as a bargaining chip. The experience changed not only his view of Iran but of the Progressives on American campuses who are incapable of acknowledging his experience.
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