In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped interview with comedian Jason Jones. The interview was intended as satire, but if the Tehran authorities got the joke they didn't like it - and it would quickly came back to haunt Bahari when he was rousted from his family home and thrown into prison.
Maziar Bahari
Moloojoon
Jason Jones
Baba Akbar
Haj Agha
Jimmy the avid editor
Javadi (Rosewater)
Davood
Maryam
Paola
Alireza
Hassan
Rahim
Hamid
Blue-Eyed Seyyed
Seyyed
Channel One State TV Interviewer
Prison Soundsman
Prison Barber
Another Prisoner
Prison Guard
Admission Guard #1
Admission Guard #2
Abdul
Female Agent
Cyrus
Avid Debate Watcher
Teenage Boy
Maziar's Producer
Herself
Field Producer
Young Rosewater
Rosewater's Father
Rosewater's Mother
1980 Prison Warden
Tavab
Young Maziar
Polling Station Policeman
Maziar's Newborn Daughter
Maziar's Friend
Flight Attendant
Shah's Guard
Cyrus
Sleepwalk with Me
The Green Prince
Not Another Happy Ending
Air Bridge
The People vs. George Lucas
Wings of Life
Bad Country
Indignation
Bad Education
Top Five
X+Y
Exit Through the Gift Shop
The Salt of the Earth
Trash
Entourage
The Theory of Everything
Europa Report
A Most Violent Year
Room in Rome
Stronger
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