Was arrested and imprisoned without charge in Iran in 2009, and subsequently made to give a coerced confession in which he stated that American journalists were working as spies in Iran. The Iranian authorities only evidence of this was an interview on The Daily Show (1996) in which Jason Jones pretended to be a spy.
The Iranian government does not have a sense of humor, but they are funny. They think they know everything, even though many in the government are utterly ignorant about what's going on outside of the small rooms where they beat people up.
