Jason Rezaian
speaker
511 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 26 May
Jason Rezaian’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's something that we should have been investing in for 20 years or more.
And we haven't engaged with people in the U.S.
government pretty regularly on these issues.
You'd be shocked at how few Iran experts are for a challenge of its magnitude.
We've deemed it this massive challenge.
We really don't put the same kind of resources into having expertise in it, having Persian speakers in government.
There's probably more people who do strategic communications on Belgium than there is on Iran.
I think we have this approach to countries like Iran and Cuba, or maybe a handful of others, that were these very staunch allies of ours that flipped through revolutions.
And there's a pride element to it that these regimes replaced client states of ours and did so while giving us the finger and have been able to survive.
Not thrive.
And it's, you know, it's ultimately the people of these countries that pay for it.
Yeah.
You know, I've thought about this a lot, and I've thought about it a lot more recently.
I was at dinner recently with my wife and a human rights lawyer who defends lots of Iranian civil society actors and journalists.
And another friend who was recently freed from imprisonment, and we were talking about our collective desire to visit Iran again.
And I think that, unfortunately, in my case, the regime did such a kind of a long-term propaganda campaign against me.
After I was released in 2019, they produced a 30-episode television series on their state television.
About you?
Yeah.
I wasn't Jason Rezaian.
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