. >> reporter: listen, siamak namazi was arrested on charges of cooperating with a hostile governmentd here are his latest efforts to try to get the biden administration's attention to secure his release. siamak namazi, an american wrongfully detained in iran for more than seven years, is embarking on a hunger strike today and calling on president biden to do everything in his power to bring him home. >> she feels desperate. this underscores the des separation. >> reporter: the goal of his letter to the president is to remind him what happened seven years ago when biden was vice president. five americans wrongfully detained in iran were returned home and siamak was left behind. >> it's horrific to think that seven whole years have gone by which could have been avoided. >> reporter: in his letter, siamak leads for biden's attention saying all he wants is, quote, just a single minute of your time. for each year of my life i lost in prison after the u.s. government could have saved me but didn't. that is all. siamak remains in prison, and there are also two other americans wrongfully det

siamak namazi was arrested in 2015, interrogated for months and then charged with espionage.risoners. kylie atwood joins us with more. what does he hope to accomplish with this hunger strike? >> reporter: it's part of an effort to attract the attention of the person he believes matter most, that's president biden. overnight we saw a twitter account launched by his family and lawyer and they'll provide updates as to how he's doing throughout this hunger strike. siamak namazi, an american wrongfully detained in iran for more than seven years is embarking on a hunger strike today and calling on president biden to do everything in his power to bring him home. >> he feels desperate and reaching out publically to the u.s. president underscores that despe desperation. >> reporter: he said the goal of his brother's letter to the president is to remind him of what happened seven years ago when biden was vice president. five americans wrongfully detained in iran returned home and siamak namazi was left behind. >> it's a horrific week to think that seven years, seven whole years have go

were wrongfully detained in the country that were returned to the united states, and at the time, siamakp. so he's reminding biden of that. biden was the vice president at the time during the obama administration, and here is his ask to biden at this time. in this letter saying, quote, in the past, i implored you to reach for your moral compass and find the resolve to bring the u.s. hostages in iran home. to no avail. not only did to we remain iran's prisoners, but you have not so much as granted our families a meeting. all i want, sir, is one minute of your day's time for the next seven days devoted to thinking about the tribulations of u.s. hostages in iran. now a national security council spokesperson called it outrageous that iran continues to detain americans for political leverage, said they are working tirelessly to bring siamak and two other americans who are currently wrongfully detained in iran right now, back home, but of course, the relations between u.s. and iran right now are quite hostile. efforts to revive the nuclear deal are on the back burner. those have been ongoing,

. >> so this is the case of siamak, namazi, a u.s. detained in iran, arrested in 2015 during a visit to the country, he was reportedly interrogated for months by iran authorities before he was then imprisoned later that year and eventually sentenced. the charge against him by iran's authorities is collaboration with a hostile foreign government. and iran has handed down the stents of ten years. he is now serving that in the notorious yvonne prison in tehran and he did write this open letter of course, to president biden marking a hunger strike that is set to begin today, rosemary, seven days he says to mark seven years since he was left behind in a prison swap in 2016 a u.s. prisoner swap that saw the release of a u.s. marine veteran, "washington post" reporter, christian pastor but ultimately left behind. i want you to read you a portion of that letter to president biden a quote from it i know we can pull that up for our viewers, all i want, sir, is one minute of your day's time for the next seven days, devoted to thinking about the

in an open letter to president biden, siamak namazi describes himself as having the "unenviable titlehe longest held iranian american hostage in history." he was arrested along with his father on a business trip in 2015 and convicted of cooperating with a hostile government. thousands of peruvians from rural areas are gathering in the capital lima to demand the resignation of president dina boluarte, who took power last month after the ouster and arrest of leftist president pedro castillo. the protests are being led by indigenous, peasant, and trade union groups opposed to the december coup. at least 50 protesters have died -- have been killed since castillo's ouster. on tuesday, police in lima fired tear gas at demonstrators who vowed to remain in the streets. >> we have come to lima. we are under editorial government, a militarist government which has stained our country blood. amy: climate protests are continuing in germany over the expansion of an open pit coal mine in the village of lÜtzerath in western germany. on tuesday, police detained swedish climate activist greta thunberg