Jason Rezaian’s wife, mother describe their tortuous final hours in Iran

Washington Post ^ | January 21, 2016 | Andrew Roth

[TroutStalker]

LANDSTUHL, Germany — It was the call that Yeganeh Salehi had been awaiting for more than a year. At 2 p.m. Saturday, she picked up the phone at her home in Iran and heard the voice of her husband, jailed American reporter Jason Rezaian.

“I have been told I am leaving for the airport right now,” he said.

Rezaian, the Washington Post correspondent in Tehran, had been detained for 18 months in the city’s notorious Evin prison, held on vague espionage-related charges that he denied. His wife, an Iranian, had visited him nearly every week, watching him lose weight and suffer from infections.

Now, Rezaian told his wife, they could meet quickly to say goodbye — until they could get her out of Iran, too.

“I’d never had such hope,” Salehi, 31, said this week.

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For hours this past weekend, though, it was not clear that the deal would actually work out. As a Swiss air force jet waited on the tarmac at Tehran’s airport to take Rezaian and other former prisoners to freedom, Salehi and her mother-in-law, Mary Rezaian, mysteriously vanished as diplomats, friends and Jason’s brother, Ali, frantically tried to find them. The women later said they had been in the hands of Iran’s hard-line Revolutionary Guard Corps. It was unclear whether the incident was due to miscommunication or whether someone was trying to destroy the deal.

[Fai Mao]

Iran. What a county!

[Blood of Tyrants]

Beloved by Obama and Kerry.

[KGeorge]

Those b*st*rds. They always do stuff like this. As competent as Mossad is, if M16 & the CIA are as ingenious as they are alleged to be, why can’t they take these SOBs out- one by one if necessary. Good for us, good for Israel, good for the Persian people, & at least an improvement for the ME.
I wish God would strike them dead.

[Faith Presses On]

The network television news doesn’t seem to mention Pastor Saeed when talking about this story.