For this American family, the Iran nuclear talks are personal
CNN
Emad Shargi's daughter says her dad has always been stoic during his ordeal as an American citizen unjustly held in an Iranian prison. But recently, she heard something different.
"Whenever I tell him, 'Oh, I wish you were here, I wish we could do this together, like when I cook something and I wish he could taste it, he always says, 'Whatever will happen will happen, everything will be fine ... don't worry about me'," Ariana Shargi said.
But this time, he told Ariana he had been thinking about Thanksgiving, telling her he hoped with "all of his heart" that the family could all be together in their DC area home, how he could make them a turkey. "He doesn't really usually talk like that, like, wishing for things," Ariana said of her father who Iran has detained since 2018. But this time, "I think I heard him, like, his voice -- crack."