For Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post reporter who was imprisoned in Iran for 544 days on spurious charges of espionage, that question is complicated. Rezaian, an Iranian-American, holds the record for longest imprisonment of a Western journalist by Iran. He was born in the United States to an Iranian father and a white Midwestern mother. “I’ve always felt that you can be an American of any kind of background, and that’s going to be more or less supported by the American masses,” Rezaian told me. Rezaian was transferred to the notorious Evin prison, separated from his wife.

Source: Huffington Post February 01, 2019 00:00 UTC