Jason Rezaian

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511 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 26 May

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Uncanny Valley | WIRED · How the Internet Could Help the Iranian People · 26 May 2026 podcast

I was Michael Hashemian.

And, you know, you see the pictures of it.

It's clearly supposed to be me.

Although, you know, the character wears a trench coat and an ascot and has one of those cigarettes on the long plastic thing.

I don't think the guy looked very cool.

But anyway, I mean, it was the sort of thing that I joke about it and I joked about it at the time.

But, you know, I was getting incredible death threats and they re-air it.

So I think that I don't know that I'll...

be able to go back ever I hope that I can I hope things change dramatically I get lots and lots of messages from people that are very positive inside the country I meet people all the time who've recently left Iran and arrived in the west and

You know, I think in all those interactions, people have shown a layer of knowledge and complexity about the circumstances that I faced, and that's encouraging.

But just knowing their track record of hostage-taking and targeted assassinations, sadly, I just don't think it's happening anytime soon.

So the decline of press freedoms in democratic societies has been going on since before Trump.

And in this country, going back to September 11th and beyond, and I think in a lot of instances in other parts of the world.

They've used the national security protocols that we created to suspend Miranda rights and due process.

They've kind of weaponized this against journalists and others in their countries, right?

So when I was taken and said, okay, you're being accused of national security crimes.

We don't have to give you access to a lawyer.

And, you know, I'd get into these long conversations about, you know, Guantanamo Bay with my interrogators, right?

And you can see that, like, they're using this as a justification.

And then I think there's been this sort of trend of dehumanizing journalists.

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