For nearly six years, American conservationist Morad Tahbaz lived in what he described as hell inside Iran’s prison system.The worst four months were spent completely alone in a small cell, beneath a bright light that never went dark.Tahbaz was held in Ward 2A of Iran’s Evin Prison, which he described as a high-security detention facility controlled by the intelligence branch of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.He was allowed out only twice a day for about 10 minutes and was forced to wear a blindfold whenever he left, Tahbaz told Fox News Digital.
His weekly call with his wife lasted only a few minutes and was monitored so closely that an official interrupted whenever he spoke in English."This is probably the harshest and toughest imprisonment that any prisoner will go through," Tahbaz, who was finally released in September 2023, told Fox News Digital of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps intelligence detention facility inside Iran's Evin Prison.WHO IS AHMAD VAHIDI? IRAN’S NEW IRGC CHIEF TIED TO GLOBAL ATTACKS AND ‘DEATH TO AMERICA’ IDEOLOGYMorad Tahbaz, an Iranian American conservationist, in Golestan National Park, Iran.Tahbaz spent nearly six years in Iran’s Evin Prison before being released with four other Americans in September 2023.
(Morad Tahbaz)Tahbaz was living and working in Iran as a conservationist when authorities arrested him alongside several colleagues in January 2018.He had co-founded the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation, which worked to protect endangered species including the Asiatic cheetah and Persian leopard.One of the accusations leveled against him, Tahbaz said, was that he had trained lizards to spy on Iranian military installations for Israel."You can’t make this stuff up," Tahbaz said in the Zoom interview with Fox News Digital.
"It just gives you an idea of the kind of narrative that this regime comes up with.They’ll come up with anything."What began with interrogations in January 2018 turned into nea...