Read "My Mother's Interrogators: In an Iranian Propaganda Broadcast, the Real Guilty Party Is Clear" by Haleh Bakhash, The Washington Post, July 19, 2007.
Haleh Esfandiari writes:
Yesterday marked 6 1/2 months since masked agents of Iran's Intelligence Ministry robbed my mother, Haleh Esfandiari, of her belongings and passports at knife-point. It had been more than 70 days since her incarceration in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison before I finally saw her this week -- not as a free woman, but in footage of a KGB-style television "confession" broadcast by Iran's state-run television.Haleh Esfandiari is head of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. That should be enough to tell any reader that she is not a spy nor an agent. However, she is also a friend of someone I trust implicitly, who assures me Esfendiari is not guilty of anything.
Clearly, this 69 year old grandmother is no threat to the Iranian government, and should be released immediately.
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