National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan released a photo of the five Americans freed from their flight back to the United States.The image also includes two relatives who were previously not allowed to leave the country. “Here are the seven Americans on their way home from alongside a world class group of American diplomats,” Sullivan wrote on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. Their return is an example of the kind of agonizing dilemma only presidents face in their lonely Oval Office perch and the way they often have to juggle humanitarian concerns with geopolitics and domestic considerations where no easy answers exist.
