Shahab Dalili is a legal permanent resident of the United States. He had just retired from a career as a ship captain, when, in 2016, his father passed away in Iran. Mr. Dalili returned to Iran for the funeral. On his way to the airport to return to his home in Virginia, he was pulled from his taxi by agents working for the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence. Mr. Dalili’s family did not know where he was for several days. Eventually, they learned he was detained, accused of cooperating with a hostile government, i.e., the United States. He was sentenced to ten years imprisonment and has been held in the infamous Evin Prison ever since.
