Whereas Iran has taken as hostages several United States citizens, including Siamak and Baquer Namazi and Xiyue Wang, as well as United States legal permanent resident, Nizar Zakka, among others; Whereas Siamak Namazi was detained on October 15, 2015, falsely accused, and convicted on October 18, 2016, for collaborating with a hostile government and has been held for extended periods in solitary confinement and under constant interrogation; Whereas former UNICEF official Baquer Namazi, the 80-year old father of Siamak Namazi, was detained on February 22, 2016, falsely accused, and sentenced to 10 years in prison for the same crime as his son; Whereas former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Iranian authorities to release Baquer Namazi, whose health status is deteriorating, to allow his family to care for him; Whereas UNICEF has issued four public statements on Baquer Namazi’s behalf; Whereas Xiyue Wang, a graduate student at Princeton University, was arrested in Iran on or about August 7, 2016, while studying Farsi and researching the late Qajar dynasty as background for his doctoral dissertation, detained by Iran in Evin prison for almost a year, falsely charged with espionage, and sentenced to 10 years in prison; Whereas Robert Levinson, a United States citizen and retired agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, traveled to Kish Island, Iran, and disappeared on March 9, 2007; Whereas the United States Government had secured a commitment from the Iranians to try and gather information about Mr. Levinson’s possible whereabouts but has not received any information thus far; Whereas, on November 23, 2016, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concluded that Iran was responsible for the arbitrary detention of Robert Levinson