In Iran, Jason Rezaian’s Reporting Strengths Led to Suspicion, Then Detention

TEHRAN — For Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post reporter now on trial on espionage charges in Iran, the incident was extraordinary but still looked like another example of the difficulties in covering the country’s politics.   On a spring day in March 2014, his wife and a female photographer were stopped in broad daylight in their car on a busy Tehran highway and taken into a van, where, friends say, a dozen men and a woman interrogated them about the photographer’s personal connection to the office of Iran’s president.