Rosewater (2014)

In 2009 Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Irans volatile elections for Newsweek One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in a taped interview with comedian Jason Jones The interview was intended as satire but if the Tehran authorities got the joke they didnt like it and it would quickly came back to haunt Bahari when he was rousted from his family home and thrown into prison