Jason Rezaian
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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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And I think if you look at the Israel-Gaza conflict post-October 7th and Ukraine-Russia war, very similar.
But this is the first one
that america is actually directly involved in and ordinary people when they watch this news without any context and without real open access to information from that country how do you expect them to make sense of it well and this was a question i had for you was the the quote-unquote meme wars right sort of the social media propaganda war that's playing out you have the
I would first of all say that Iranian propaganda from the time I was detained until now has improved leaps and bounds in efficacy, right?
And not just Americans, people from all over the world.
Sure.
Look, I don't think that there are guys sitting in Tehran who have a full understanding of the cultural contexts that we're dealing with here.
But they've done a great job of outsourcing that to whoever is doing that.
And...
It's less reactive.
You know, when I was taken, and I've seen this play out in other instances of hostages that they've taken, there's just like a kind of an immediate campaign to sully the reputation of that person.
You know, we've got this evidence of X, Y, and Z.
The story that they tell is very much from their own point of view for their own audience, for their own domestic audience.
This is different, right?
This is real trolling, right?
And it works.
It makes people think to themselves, wow, you know, when they bring the Epstein files into it and gun violence into our country, you know.
They would talk about those things on their state television, but talk about it from their own ideological lens, that this is ungodly, this is un-Islamic.
Look at how those infidels live over there.
This is something very different.
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