Haleh Esfandiari, the founding director of the Woodrow Wilson Center's Middle East Program and former deputy secretary general of the Women's Organization of Iran, tells the story of how she was interrogated and imprisoned in Iran when the country's Intelligence Ministry believed she was part of an American conspiracy for ...

In 2007, Iranian-American scholar Haleh Esfandiari left the U.S. on an annual visit to her mother in Iran. But when she got to the country, she was promptly arrested and charged with treason. She tells us how she was kept in solitary confinement for more than 100 days and subjected to grueling interrogations. This is all in her new memoir, "My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran".