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COMMENTS: Gym Jail
The plight of Haleh Esfandiari, the Iranian-American scholar, has been a special beat for NBC's Andrea Mitchell. She covered Esfandiari's arrest in Teheran for espionage in May, the television airing of her purported confession in July and her release on bail in August. Finally, after three months of solitary confinement, the 67-year-old Esfandiari was allowed out of the country and Mitchell joined her for a stroll around her garden in suburban Maryland. "I was not a spy. I did not plot against them. I was not actually interested in overthrowing the regime. Absolutely not." Her technique for resisting her captors was exercise: "I would do one hundred pushups."
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