Left Behind in Iran

FROM THE MOMENT Haleh Esfandiari was arrested and imprisoned by the government of Iran in May, her friends in high places in Washington rallied to her defense and demanded that she be released. Most notable among them was former representative Lee H. Hamilton, president of the Smithsonian Institution's Woodrow Wilson International Center, where Ms. Esfandiari is head of the Middle East program. She is known for championing dialogue between Iran and the United States. The accusation of "crimes against national security" by the Iranian Intelligence Ministry was bogus. She endured solitary confinement, endless hours of interrogation and pressure to confess to a plot to help spark a "velvet revolution" in the theocratic nation.
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