106. Sent to Death in an Iranian Prison
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Jake Hanrahan
4.8 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2021
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Today we speak to Iranian human rights activist and writer Ana Diamond. Ana tells us about the time she was almost executed in Iran's notorious Evin prison.
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| 0:00.0 | This is popular front, a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and |
| 0:08.7 | underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan. |
| 0:12.4 | Today we're speaking to with me Jake Hanrahan. |
| 0:13.0 | Today we're speaking to human rights activist and writer Anna Diamond. |
| 0:20.0 | Anna was held for eight months for no reason whatsoever in one of the most brutal |
| 0:27.8 | prisons in the world, Evan prison in Iran and is going to speak to us about that and explain how this all |
| 0:36.2 | happened despite the fact she was completely innocent. If you like what we're |
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| 0:59.0 | So Anna, let's go back to the very start you ended up in a really bad situation in Iran |
| 1:09.2 | take us back to the start how did this all happen so in the summer of 2014 my family and I decided to visit Iran |
| 1:16.2 | because my dad had been invited to the International Mahdavyaad Conference which is kind of |
| 1:21.3 | where all the scholars who focus on Abrahamic religions |
| 1:27.2 | come together well not all but you know Iran-centric ones and then they discuss their |
| 1:32.1 | latest research or findings or philosophies around the Messiah and |
| 1:38.1 | Abrahamic religions and so my dad actually is an Islamic, but he is quite different from those that you see in the Islamic |
| 1:46.3 | Republic. |
| 1:47.1 | So, but at the time there was no friction. |
| 1:50.1 | So we went to Iran in the July of 2014, but we went at different times. |
| 1:57.5 | So my parents went first and I came second |
| 2:00.4 | because I was coming from the US where I was studying a semester abroad. |
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