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

Thank you.

Yes, yeah.

I was the unfortunate next guest after your friend Maziar.

Oh, yeah.

First seven weeks of solitary confinement, lights on 24 hours a day, endless interrogations by morons, you know, the whole bit.

So I said, look, I've been in your custody for the last three months.

I don't know where my mom is.

I don't have her phone number off the top of my head.

But if you think you can figure out how to get her on the phone, I'd love to talk to mom.

I've been incommunicado for months.

And...

I reached her, and we spoke for, gosh, it turned out to be about a half an hour.

And it became, I think, one of the most surreal experiences of the whole ordeal.

And when she and I talked about it afterwards, reminisced, I was like, Mom, we kind of ran out of shit to say.

So what's, yeah.

And, you know, after some time, after many months, she was able to come visit me.

And we would have these meetings, like you do in the prison, as you see in a movie, you know, behind a thing.

And, you know, I'd get glimpses of news from the outside world.

And I had been told that Muhammad Ali had called for my release, which is a pretty big deal.

And so, you know, I wanted to verify this with Mom.

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