Iranian dissident Massi Kamari felt helpless when she found out about her elderly parents being harassed by the authorities back home.
Ednews reports citing BBC that she called her mother’s phone in late December, but the person on the other end was a man whose voice she didn’t recognize.
Her parents were inside the offices of Iran’s intelligence service in Tehran. And she was in the French capital, Paris, where she lives.
Kamari knew that the government agents who had been intimidating her family for months wanted only one thing: to speak directly to her about her activism abroad.
“I was thinking: ‘What can I do about this?’ So, I decided to try to record this phone call,” she recalled.
In the recording of the phone call in late December that was obtained by CNN, Kamari can be heard arguing for almost 20 minutes with a man she believes is a member of Iran’s shadowy intelligence service.