Iran Finally Let Her See Her Husband. He Was Dead.

Tragic as it is, and it is tragic, it seems far better than what we subject inmates in Guantanamo and their families too. If this article is meant to highlight Iranian disgrace, there should be no let up in highlighting our very own disgrace and arrogance - "we can kidnap anyone, anywhere and imprison them for as long as we want, maybe forever, without letting them have access to family and friends, while subjecting them to physical and psychological torture." Maybe our Israeli "allies" find this completely normal and acceptable. The civilized world does not.

He was of Iranian descent, went to Iran, a country known for its views and policies. He landed in jail. Hs widow, also Iranian, weeps. And we are supposed to do what? Interfere with Iran's policies and sovereign rights because this person very knowingly put himself in danger?

Sure, we've all heard stories, some true, some only in stories, about dastardly governments, making up lies to justify abusing their political opponents, and that's the narrative here. But, while I won't be shocked if it ends up proving out, I note that there are some real strange pieces: "Mr. Seyed Emami was an unexpected target of the hard-liners. Softspoken, he always preferred to cooperate rather than challenge the authorities. " So, this is who they decide to murder??? "Instead of being taken to see her husband she was closeted in a room with a prosecutor and four intelligence agents from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and interrogated for several hours." "A day after the arrest, the Seyed Emamis’ house in Tehran was raided by at least 30 agents who spent eight hours ransacking the place." Those two sound to me like: those government people REALLY STRONGLY BELIEVED HE WAS A SPY!!!! Not that it justifies murder, and in the middle about whether it explains suicide, I can't see anything that proves he was NOT in fact a spy...which, you recall, we Americans have decided to hang sometimes

I'm curious, does the Times cover every suspicious death of a foreign environmentalist or just the one's in a country where the administration and the usual suspects are ginning up for war.

I fear that the NY Times is starting the inevitable drumbeat of a war with Iran. This is the third article you've had this week chronicling the atrocities committed by that country. However, I haven't seen one recent article about what horrors the Saudis, our allies, and Iran's rival in the Middle East, are doing in Yemen eg. the bombing of civilians, the hunger etc. I realize that you can't cover every tragic hot spot every week. But when you only cover one side of a story, and one point of view, and the bad guys are the country our current president is itching to attack, I think a more nuanced coverage is necessary. After all, the Saudis were the ones behind 9/11, 19 of the attackers were from Saudi Arabia, yet we ended up attacked Iraq, not because of they were erroneously accused at first of being behind the attack and then, but because the were, again erroneously, accused of having WMDs. Your paper was behind the war in Iraq and all the disastrous consequences. I would think you would use a little more caution this time around.

I believe Mr Emami as a man of open discourse did have the mental strenght in his passion to find comfort in the fact that those who weep for him can always be comforted by his believe in truth.

"In many respects, Mr. Seyed Emami was an unexpected target of the hard-liners." On the contrary, the hard-liners would be particularly interested in a man like him: inside the regime (in the sense of teaching at a "conservative" university), but telling his students and others to work within the system for change. Probably had some ties to the people in the Rouhani government, at least those on the far reformist end of the Rouhani spectrum. And with citizenship in a western democracy, to boot. He is precisely the sort of man the hard-liners would worry about. That NYT's man in Tehran doesn't understand this is disheartening.

How the youth of Iran can put up with this I just do not understand. The cost in blood to overcome this primordial, religious-based dictatorship will be significant. My heart goes out to the young people of Iran to find their lives spent so cheaply in support of such corruption and greed.

How can humans treat one another this way?

A good time to donate to the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation.

What a tragic story. This family deserve better and they certainly deserve more than the ignorant comments below about pallets of cash (actually Iran's own money) being 'handed' to the Iranian government. As its clear in the piece Iran is in a struggle between extremists and moderates. Reversing the Obama administration's minor steps to restoring a relationship, as your current oafish White House are doing, hands the extremists a victory. Meanwhile Iranian citizens like the Emami's suffer. Horrible.

A martyr for the Earth and its natural beauty. "On the earth are signs for the certain in faith" (Quran 51:20). His faith was greater than that of the rulers of his country.

Iran traded the murderous Shah for for a religious mafia, with hit men on every corner. Most Iranians are nice people, but lambs to the slaughter.

They probably told him to kill himself or they would kill his family. Very sad.

I love how the world and the UN reserve there animosity for Israel and the US yet trip over themselves to kiss the feet of the Mullahs.

This story has been on the front page for over 24 hours now as if the lack of comments (total 15) hasn't given NYT a clue that readers are sick of their Iran bashing dressed as news.

This article really exposes what happens when morons start to rule.

Truly a sad and tragic end for a good man. My deepest condolences to his family, friends and colleagues.

Is there a more despicable bunch of paranoids than the government of Iran? Maybe ISIS is more cruel, but not by much. It's time for the Iranian people to rise up - again. Maybe next time we'll give them some support.

Obama wanted to restore the relationship with Iran during his last years in the White House, but to no avail, as it turns out, and now than ever the regime proves to be more anti USA by means of making close association militarily and diplomatically with Russia, diametrically acting opposite, in Iraq and Syria, of what we perceive to be our interest. They nicely took our good intent which was designed to extract reciprocity in kind, but that's it. All we witnessed is baring of our naivete, a la Obama/Kelly's amateurish endeavor. We were once the major player in the Middle East, but now Russia and Iran run the show with resulting intense anxiety among the Sunni nations in the region, not to mention Israel. The tragic death of Mr. Emami reminds me of Mr. Warmbier's similar fate following the imprisonment in North Korea. With one country, Iran, we anxiously wanted to and so to speak succeeded the restoration of the diplomatic relationship. And now the outcome; we are wondering when Iran is going to successfully proceed with the nuclear tests and when and if it would make, following the North Korea's fashion, similar threats to its neighbors including Israel, which it time and again threatened to wipe out of its existence. So here comes Trump, a new sheriff in town, a bravado, who, despite his childish words and conduct, ironically may be able to contain Iran. In the world politics, I guess, the only thing that matters seems to be always the strength and willingness to use it.

One more event to add to the already overflowing number of violence against good and hopeful people. Iran had a chance at democracy which my own country managed to destroy. Now Iran itself is staining its country with horrific and bloody policies. Perhaps this will end and Iran will move toward a more enlightened foundation. There is a book whose author I recently came across in a book about photography of people in Mexico who discovered their Jewish ancestry. The author is Ori Z Soltes who, in 2011, wrote the book "Untangling The Web. A Thinking Person's Guide to Why the Middle East Is A Mess And always Has Been. Admittedly, 20

Wow - it is so upsetting that there are places in this world where this things happen. It is a shameful aspect of the human kind that the nations who uprise against one dictator always choose another one in its place. The current iranian state in its hate for other nations and its own people when they do not fall in line is a medieval mirage that spreads hate in the places where love is most needed. I hope that against all ods and the lessons of history, the end of this tyranny will not be accompanied by numerous meaningless deaths

Stories like these are very commonplace in Iran. I'm thankful this one made it to Western media.

Sad, but a stark example of how antagonizing Iran only gives hardliners more ammunition to clamp down on local political opposition. Wondering where the similar stories about Saudi Arabia are?

The current regime ruling Iran is a corrupt, infantile, repressed, ignorant, theocracy. They only want to hang on to power, and like other corrupt governments will do whatever it takes to remain in power. The young people of Iran must rise up and take their county back.

Conscience is the bedrock of human living together and the government of Iran has shown only fear and cowardice in the face of the conscience of Seyed Emami. The shame on Iran defiles it. Those who acquiesce in this state action are culpable.

Surely there is something in the Koran that condemns this sort of political murder. I wonder how Supreme Leader Khamenei is justifying acts like this to Allah, himself, and the Iranian people.

Not defending the regime, but most people you call westerners in Iranian jails are really Iranians with dual citizenship and they all entered Iran by Iranian passport. As Mr. Trump would call them they are fake Americans or Canadians!! I am sorry for death of this gentleman but he was a professor at the Imam Sadiq University!! Did the writer of this article bother to search what kind of university this this?? This is an ultra conservative religious university!! Why a Canadian with the right mind would associate himself with this kind of university? Average Iranian would not!! There is something fishy here!

Surprisingly the article makes no mention of Canada's response. Perhaps because there has not been much of one.

Shame on Obama for giving this regime billions in CASH without getting anything in return. The government continues to act in this horrific manner. My heart goes out to this family.