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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.

Top Cast

  • Gael García Bernal

    Gael García Bernal

    Maziar Bahari

  • Shohreh Aghdashloo

    Shohreh Aghdashloo

    Moloojoon

  • Kim Bodnia

    Kim Bodnia

    Javadi (Rosewater)

  • Claire Foy

    Claire Foy

    Paola

  • Haluk Bilginer

    Haluk Bilginer

    Baba Akbar

  • Golshifteh Farahani

    Golshifteh Farahani

    Maryam

  • Nasser Faris

    Nasser Faris

    Haj Agha

  • Dimitri Leonidas

    Dimitri Leonidas

    Davood

  • Amir El-Masry

    Amir El-Masry

    Alireza

Overview

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.

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