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Reading the acknowledgments section of your book is incredible - just to see all the people and organizations that supported your release. I was very humbled by it and very grateful. Almost a little embarrassed that my detention had created such a fuss. I did hear a little bit about some...
How did the people of Iran - those who are not part of the regime - respond to your story? When I was released, the Iranian people, many of them, came up to me and apologized for the way I was treated. They said, "I'm so sorry you were our guest...
In the meantime, a lot of Iranians may end up in a situation like yours. I cried when I was freed, and my tears were both of joy and of sorrow - joy for my freedom, but sorrow for those prisoners of conscience I was leaving behind. I was freed in...
In the epilogue, you say that when you were first at home in the U.S., you found yourself looking over your shoulder. Do you still have that feeling? Like the Iranian government could come after you? Yes, sometimes I do. I wonder if they can still read my e-mails...
You didn't know for six years in Iran that they were following you as closely as they were. People have asked me, "If you knew you were being watched or you thought you might be monitored, why did you still interview people?" I tell them, "Because what I was...