
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