As a former prisoner in Iran, Haleh Esfandiari can relate to recently imprisoned journalist Roxana Saberi. In a Daily Beast exclusive, she explains what the saga means for U.S.-Iranian relations.
Haleh Esfandiari is the Director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. She recently completed a memoir, My Prison, My Home, based on her eight months arrest in Iran in 2007 of which she spent 105 days in solitary confinement in Tehran's Evin Prison. The book will be published in October.