In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was overlaying Iran's risky elections for Newsweek. One of many few reporters dwelling within the nation with entry to US media, he made an look on The Each day Present with Jon Stewart, in a taped interview with comic Jason Jones. The interview was supposed as satire, but when the Tehran authorities obtained the joke they did not prefer it - and it will rapidly got here again to hang-out Bahari when he was rousted from his household house and thrown into jail.