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A love of Iran underlies a scholar’s memoir of surreal interrogation and solitary confinement in Tehran.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/books/review/Secor-t.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
In 2007, Haleh Esfandiari, the Iranian-American director of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Middle East Program, told Iranian intelligence everything she knew. She was interrogated for almost eight months, nearly four of them inside Tehran’s notorious Evin prison. During that time, she explained the institutional structure of the Wilson Center, identified its board members and described her work organizing conferences. She translated reams of material from the center’s Web site into Farsi. But it was a dialogue of the deaf.