Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, a native Californian who has U.S. and Iranian citizenship, faces a closed-door trial in Tehran Revolutionary Court. His friends say his cultivation of contacts with government sources is all it would take to draw official suspicion.
TEHRAN, Iran — For Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post reporter now on trial for espionage in Iran, the incident was extraordinary but still looked like another example of the difficulties in covering the country’s politics.
On a spring day in March 2014, his wife and a female photographer were stopped in broad daylight in their car on a busy Tehran highway and taken into a van, where, friends say, a dozen men and a woman interrogated them about the photographer’s personal connection to the office of Iran’s president.