“Nothing compares to my unscheduled stay in a foreign prison,” said Seib, who has covered presidents and Federal Reserve chairmen.
After returning to Tehran, Iranian officials withheld his passport. Then, a vehicle pulled up alongside his car in a hotel parking lot, and four men in military camouflage grabbed him and put him in their car and took him to a prison, where he was accused of spying.
“I spent most of the time in an interrogation room and one night in a hotly lit cell,” said Seib. After four days, they released him, but not before one of the guards asked for a memento, said Seib.
“Can I have your business card?” the guard asked. “If I come to America, I would like to call you.”
Seib said he gave the guard his business card, but he never heard from him.
Listen to Seib’s conversation here.
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