Last month, Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.) sounded the alarm to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio about one of his constituents being held in an Iranian prison. The congressman wrote to Rubio again this month, but this time, Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) joined him in the letter.

The two asked Rubio to use “all available tools” to get Iran to release Kamran Hekmati, imprisoned for “attending his son’s bar mitzvah in Israel 13 years ago.” The lawmakers said Hekmati has aggressive bladder cancer and should be released “immediately on humanitarian grounds.”

Hekmati, 70, who holds both U.S. and Iranian citizenship and is a member of the Zoning Board of Appeals of the village of Great Neck Estates, was imprisoned earlier this year while visiting relatives in Iran. The lawmakers said that Hekmati

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