May 3, 2015
The campaign to silence her also fits with a broader strategy of Tehran silencing free speech within its borders. The government has imprisoned hundreds of political activists, human rights groups say. It continues to jail a Washington Postjournalist on charges of espionage. In a recent interview with Charlie Rose, Iranain foreign minister Javad Zarif, his government’s chief negotiator on a pending agreement over the country’s nuclear program, laughably asserted that Iran doesn’t “jail people for their opinions.”