The espionage trial of an American reporter jailed in Iran is due to get underway on Tuesday.
Jason Rezaian (PRON: REZ-AYE-AN) was arrested in July 2014, and has only been allowed one meeting with his lawyer since then.
His employer, The Washington Post newspaper, is demanding that the legal proceedings against him take place in public.
But analyst Bob McMahon of the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations says that appears to be unlikely.
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Mr. Rezaian denies all the charges that he’s facing, and analyst Bob McMahon of the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations says he may simply have been too good at his job.
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