In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped interview with comedian Jason Jones. The interview was intended as satire, but if the Tehran authorities got the joke they didn't like it - and it would quickly came back to haunt Bahari when he was rousted from his family home and thrown into prison.
as Maziar Bahari
as Moloojoon
as Javadi (Rosewater)
as Paola
as Baba Akbar
as Maryam
as Haj Agha
as Davood
as Alireza
as Hamid
as Rahim
as Jimmy the avid editor
as Jason Jones
as Hassan
as Blue-Eyed Seyyed
as Seyyed
as Channel One State TV Interviewer
as Prison Soundsman
as Prison Barber
as Another Prisoner
as Prison Guard
as Admission Guard #1
as Admission Guard #2
as Abdul
as Female Agent
as Cyrus
as Avid Debate Watcher
as Teenage Boy
as Maziar's Producer
as Herself
as Field Producer
as Young Rosewater
as Rosewater's Father
as Rosewater's Mother
as 1980 Prison Warden
as Tavab
as Young Maziar
as Polling Station Policeman
as Maziar's Newborn Daughter
as Maziar's Friend
as Flight Attendant
as Shah's Guard
as Cyrus
