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The plight of Haleh Esfandiari has been off the networks' radar for a couple of months. NBC's Andrea Mitchell is the one who is trying to keep the case of the imprisoned Iranian-American from an inside-the-Beltway think tank in the news. Mitchell covered Esfandiari twice--here and here--when she was arrested for espionage in Teheran in May. Now, she alone has reported on a network newscast about the documentary on Iranian TV that contains her purported confession. Ali Arouzi, NBC's producer in Teheran explained that "from the perspective of the Iranian government…what she has been doing is extremely subversive." And what exactly was that? Israelis and others came to her Woodrow Wilson Center for lectures, Esfandiari stated in the documentary: "Policymakers listened to their lectures and a network was formed." According to Iran, that networking, Mitchell elaborated, amounts to "a confession to overthrow the regime."
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