On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Katy Tur Reports,” Washington Post columnist Jason Rezaian, who was wrongfully detained by Iran for over a year before being freed in a prisoner swap in 2016, argued that while we shouldn’t avoid doing deals to
On Thursday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Washington Post columnist Jason Rezaian, who was wrongly detained by the Iranian government, stated that “countries like Iran, Russia, China” are taking more Americans hostage “because they don’t see anything standing in their way.” But freeing current
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” Washington Post Global Opinions Writer and CNN Contributor Jason Rezaian, who was wrongfully detained by Iran for over a year before being freed in a prisoner swap in 2016, stated that bringing other wrongfully detained Americans
Iran has sentenced a man to death for allegedly spying for the CIA and attempting to share information about Tehran’s nuclear program, authorities said on Tuesday, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.
Washington Post writer Jason Rezaian, who was held prisoner in Iran from 2014 to 2016, testified against the Iranian government in U.S. federal court on Tuesday. Rezaian is suing Iran for committing “unlawful acts of terrorism, torture, hostage taking, and other torts” against him and his family and seeks a multimillion-dollar settlement.
Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian filed a federal lawsuit against the government of Iran on Monday, asserting that he was taken hostage and psychologically tortured during 18 months of captivity, to extract concessions from the U.S. government in the Iranian nuclear deal.
Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, who was detained in Iran for more than 500 days on unspecified charges, filed a lawsuit against the Iranian government Monday, accusing Tehran of using his imprisonment as a bargaining chip with the U.S.
Well-heeled customers of the New York Times paid more than $7000, not including airfare, to tour the country of Iran and even visit the home of the late Ayatollah Khomeini. This at a time when a Washington Post reporter had been in a brutal Tehran prison for more than two years.
Former Iranian hostage Matthew Trevithick gave some chilling details of his captivity to CNN’s Anderson Cooper, including an interrogator saying of fellow hostage Jason Rezaian: “He’s never leaving, and neither are you.”
What would you do after being held hostage in an Iranian dungeon for a year and a half on kangaroo-court charges of “espionage?” Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian said he wants to catch up on the new Star Wars movie and watch some basketball games.
Russian officials are seeking to sell Iran military helicopters following the end of decades-long sanctions on the Islamic regime.
Americans are elated that five U.S. citizens held captive in Iran have been freed–but also worry about the steep cost.
Iran State TV station FARS announced Saturday morning that four American dual-nationality prisoners were released from Iranian custody in a “prisoner swap” with the United States.
Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, a spokesman for the Iranian judiciary, claims that unnamed Americans have tried to arrange a prisoner swap to secure the freedom of captive Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian.
Kidnapped American Robert Levinson’s son Daniel penned an op-ed for the Washington Post over the weekend, in which he warned those who would visit Iran in pursuit of business opportunities created by the nuclear deal to exercise extreme caution. “My family and I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous traveling to Iran remains,” Daniel Levinson wrote.
Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s campaign offered public support to the cause of freeing American hostages in Iran.
President Obama’s indifference toward Americans held hostage by his partners-in-peace in Tehran was stress-tested again on Sunday, as an Iranian court sentenced Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian to prison on “espionage” charges.
On November 4, 1979, Muslim student revolutionaries in the Islamic Republic of Iran took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and with it claimed 52 American citizens as hostages in what became a 444-day ordeal that would go on to grip America and the world.
Iran has taken another American citizen captive. On Tuesday, Iran’s state-owned IRIB news network announced that the regime had arrested Nizar Ahmad Zakka, a Lebanese-American from Riverside, California with alleged “deep ties” to the U.S. military and intelligence services on suspicion of espionage.
Jason Rezaian has “confessed” to leading a network of spies in Iran, working directly with the U.S. to “topple the Iranian regime,” according to Fars News, Iran’s state-run media outlet.
The Iranian government has convicted hostage American reporter Jason Rezaian of “espionage” in an outrageous secret trial.
The Washington Post asked the United Nations to support its demand for the release of captive journalist Jason Rezaian, held prisoner for over a year by the Iranian regime on absurd charges of “espionage.” As Rezaian’s long, secret “trial” grinds on, several U.N. human-rights experts have expressed their concerns.
One way or the other, the “legal” ordeal of a Washington Post reporter held captive in Iran appears to be winding down. According to Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron, a final hearing in the secret “espionage” trail of Jason Rezaian was held on Monday, and will be the final hearing before a verdict is reached. Rezaian has been a already prisoner of the Iranian regime for over a year.
Jason Rezaian’s employers at the Washington Post have turned to the United Nations for help in freeing him from Iranian prison, following a nuclear deal in which the White House failed to even bring up U.S. citizens currently jailed in the Islamic Republic.
During his speech to the VFW convention today, President Obama called for the release of U.S. citizens wrongfully imprisoned in Iran, but botched the last name of Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian.
Garrett asked President Barack Obama a real question. And the Iran deal demands more questions than his colleagues have cared to ask, thus far. Why, for example, is Obama going to the UN Security Council before going to Congress, as promised?
As the White House hails a breakthrough in its diplomatic effort to curb Iran’s nuclear program, several under-reported facts cast a shadow over any real, or imagined, success. President Obama’s assurance that “every pathway to a nuclear weapon is cut off” for Iran flies in the face of reality.
Last year, the Senate called on President Obama to “use the tools it has in pursuit of what should be a bipartisan goal: securing the release of American citizens being held as hostages by the regime in Iran.” Today, in the announcement of a nuclear deal with Iran that ignores the plight of these three hostages, the Obama administration has left behind a Christian preacher, a journalist, and a U.S. Marine.
A Persian-language news outlet reported this week that Iran has sentenced a group of 18 Christians to between one and ten years in prison each for organizing “house churches” and “propaganda against the regime.”
The “trial” of Jason Rezaian – an American journalist brazenly held hostage by those trustworthy statesmen in Iran – has gotten under way, and it is exactly the kind of outrageous totalitarian farce you would expect.
Washington Post bureau chief Jason Rezaian has been languishing in an Iranian prison cell for nearly nine months, with only the most cursory access to legal counsel. The newspaper reports today that Rezaian is having significant problems being allowed to speak to his attorney, and will remain in prison until his trial begins for “espionage.”
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