"As the author of a recent essay on Iran for Vanity Fair magazine, I should like to say that the researching of the article would have been impossible without the continuous assistance of Mr Jason Rezaian. His knowledge of the country and its people, his skill as an interpreter and organiser, and his resourcefulness in dealing with unexpected difficulties, were beyond praise."

Sincerely,
Christopher Hitchens

"I was fortunate to meet Jason Rezaian just after I had finished writing a novel on Iran, and just as he was about to return there to file dispatches from a country so often misunderstood or not understood at all in the West. The messages he sent me from the country gave me an angle on the place, a first-hand feel for it and sense of what's really going on, beneath the headlines and the propaganda gestures on both sides, that enlightened and informed and challenged. If he can do the same in the space of a book, we will all be much the better off. He is in a position to give us an Iran we have not seen before, and an Iran we desperately need to see (and that needs to see us, in turn)."

-Pico Iyer, author of several travel books including “Video Nights and Kathmandu,” novels such as “Abandon” and frequent contributor to Time and Conde Nast Traveler.

“In the course of producing my book, The Crisis [Little, Brown & Co., 2004] Jason Rezaian has been of great assistance to me as a reporter and research assistant.  He has conducted interviews on my behalf inside Iran, as well as helping me locate documentary information on Iranian subjects.  All of the work he did for me was first rate and his insights into Iran were of great use.”

- David Harris