Namazi previously spoke with Amanpour by phone in March 2023 from inside Iran’s notorious Evin Prison, in what was an unprecedented interview.
“That is the smell of freedom.” Forty years later, Siamak Namazi emerged into the night air after eight years in prison.
The logistics of his prison interview weren’t complicated.
And it’s not just an American problem: Evin Prison is “a dystopian United Nations of hostages,” Namazi says, with many countries’ citizens behind bars.
Emotion in his voice, Namazi tells Amanpour that, eventually, he’d like to meet the man who freed him.
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