Overview
In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped interview with comedian Jason Jones. The interview was intended as satire, but if the Tehran authorities got the joke they didn't like it - and it would quickly came back to haunt Bahari when he was rousted from his family home and thrown into prison.
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DirectorJon Stewart
WriterJon Stewart
Cast
Gael García Bernal
Maziar Bahari
Shohreh Aghdashloo
Moloojoon
Kim Bodnia
Javadi (Rosewater)
Claire Foy
Paola
Haluk Bilginer
Baba Akbar
Golshifteh Farahani
Maryam
Nasser Faris
Haj Agha
Dimitri Leonidas
Davood
Amir El-Masry
Alireza
Arian Moayed
Hamid
Numan Acar
Rahim
Andrew Gower
Jimmy the avid editor
Jason Jones
Jason Jones
Kambiz Hosseini
Hassan
Ayman Sharaiha
Blue-Eyed Seyyed
Zeid Kattan
Seyyed
Ali Elayan
Channel One State TV Interviewer
Nidal Ali
Prison Soundsman
Alex Klaus
Prison Barber
Firas Fanni
Another Prisoner
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Added May 14, 2026Updated Jun 4, 2026