(Featured) Things That Go Boom: How a Washington Post journalist ended up in a notorious Iranian prison

(Featured) Things That Go Boom: How a Washington Post journalist ended up in a notorious Iranian prison

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The first clue something was wrong came in the form of an alert on Yegi Rezaian’s phone. Where I grew up,” she says, “these things don’t happen by accident.” Within hours, Yegi Rezaian and her husband, Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian, found themselves in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison. Interrogations quickly turned surreal for Jason Rezaian; captors seemed convinced his Kickstarter campaign to bring avocados to Iran was some kind of spycraft. It took some time to realize that one of the reasons that Jason Rezaian would spend the next 544 days in prison was because of the Iran nuclear deal. On this final bonus episode from The World’s partners at the Things That Go Boom podcast, host Laicie Heeley looks at the collateral damage resulting from President Donald Trump’s pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal.