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

If I think about the early 2000s when I first started traveling to Iran...

I made my first trip to Iran in the spring of 2001, before 9-11.

And then six months later, after 9-11.

And then in 2003, I moved there for the better part of a year.

Kept going back and forth until ultimately I moved there in 2009.

There were many moments when the society...

I think was closer to opening up and really reclaiming some autonomy and control from this regime.

And at every turn we had sanctions or a military attack or cyber attacks that kind of set those things back.

I mean, look, even when I was there,

Before I was arrested, I can't say that there was a sort of a flourishing journalistic core.

There was a handful of us working there.

And then local media.

At that time, let's say there were 20 foreign correspondents based there.

It's a country of 93 million people.

It's massive.

It's huge.

And from the day that I was arrested until now, 12 years later, the access of independent international media has only shrunk.

We don't have good access into it.

We don't have good windows into it.

And I think when I look at the information war that's being fought on social media, and also lots of deep fakes and very difficult landscape to try and verify information from, it's very confusing for the average American.

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