Iranian spy TV show 'Gando' glorifies hard-liners and intelligence officers behind arrest of Washington Post journalist in 2014, jongambrellAP writes.
This undated promotional handout still from the Iranian state TV series, “Gando,” shows actor Payam Dehkordi, center, who plays a character apparently based on Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian, among other actors. The new Iranian television series is glorifying the hard-liners and intelligence officers behind the 2014 arrest and imprisonment of Rezaian.
The case of Rezaian, who was freed in 2016 after 544 days in a prisoner swap between the U.S. and Iran just as Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers came into force, showed how the Islamic Republic can grab those with Western ties to use in negotiations. It’s a practice recounted by human rights groups, U.N. investigators and the families of those detained.
The 30-episode “Gando,” which refers to the name of an alligator indigenous to Iran, has all the trappings of an American police or spy procedural. Gunfights ensue, including one in which a woman in a chador tosses aside a blanket for a sniper rifle to shoot someone in the leg. Hashemian is arrested, kept in a prison cell the size of a small Tehran apartment, and later tells his captors “during this period I’ve grown a lot fatter” from all the good food during his incarceration.Rezaian was arrested July 22, 2014, in Tehran alongside his wife, reporter Yeganeh Salehi, at gunpoint in a night raid.
A prisoner swap in January 2016 as Iran’s nuclear deal came into force saw Rezaian and three other Iranian-Americans freed. The U.S. also made a $400 million cash delivery to Iran, something “Gando” gleefully recounts with pallets of cash near a private jet at Tehran’s Mehrabad airport. The characterization of the Foreign Ministry, including Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, even came up at a weekly news conference held by the ministry’s spokesman, who acknowledged he watched the show and called it “not a bad series based on the special effects.”
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