kylie moore gilbert in melbourne, welcome to hardtalk. thanks so much for having me. it s a real pleasure to have you on the show. it is pretty much a year and a half now since you were released from imprisonment in iran. how much distance do you now feel from that whole experience? it feels sometimes like it never happened. it feels like it was a very lengthy, especially vivid nightmare that ijust dreamt one night when i was asleep and have woken up the next day, and i still have those memories of that nightmare lingering with me. but because i m in the same familiarspaces, back at my home that i was in before i went to iran, sometimes i have to pinch myself and remind myself that i ve actually gone through that terrible ordeal and that experience in real life. you did say a little while ago, you said when you first released, you think that you re going to be shattered, you re going to be broken but actually, that s not really true. from my experience, at least, you say the
after 804 days behind bars. is it possible to heal after such a shattering ordeal? kylie moore gilbert in melbourne, welcome to hardtalk. thanks so much for having me. it s a real pleasure to have you on the show. it is pretty much a year and a half now since you were released from imprisonment in iran. how much distance do you now feel from that whole experience? it feels sometimes like it never happened. it feels like it was a very lengthy, especially vivid nightmare that ijust dreamt one night when i was asleep and have woken up the next day, and i still have those memories of that nightmare lingering with me. but because i m in the same familiarspaces, back at my home that i was in before i went to iran, sometimes i have to pinch myself and remind myself that i ve actually gone through that terrible ordeal and that experience in real life. you did say a little while ago, you said when you first released, you think that you re going to be shattered, you re going to be brok
to the iranians, did it not seem to you that these could all be red flags? certainly from the perspective of the iranian security services or interrogators, i do think that would have been a red flag. but the thing is, i was invited to iran by an iranian university who, given my research output, decided that i was suitable to attend their university seminar. ithen.. and i was concerned about this, but i had nothing to hide. all they needed to do was google me to see what my area of research interest is, for example, and what countries i visited, i mean, i had written about it. so i went to the iranian embassy in canberra and deliberately applied in advance for my visa, being upfront that i was going to attend a university seminar, i had been invited by an iranian university, and gave them every opportunity to google my name and check my background. i didn t declare that my ex husband had an israeli passport, but i didn t believe that they would find that out.
to the iranians, did it not seem to you that these could all be red flags? certainly from the perspective of the iranian security services or interrogators, i do think that would have been a red flag. but the thing is, i was invited to iran by an iranian university who, given my research output, decided that i was suitable to attend their university seminar. ithen.. and i was concerned about this, but i had nothing to hide. all they needed to do was google me to see what my area of research interest is, for example, and what countries i visited. i mean, i had written about it. so i went to the iranian embassy in canberra and deliberately applied in advance for my visa, being upfront that i was going to attend a university seminar, i had been invited by an iranian university, and gave them every opportunity to google my name and check my background.
i do think that would have been a red flag. but the thing is, i was invited to iran by an iranian university who, given my research output, decided that i was suitable to attend their university seminar. ithen.. and i was concerned about this, but i had nothing to hide. all they needed to do was google me to see what my area of research interest is, for example, and what countries i visited, i mean, i had written about it. so i went to the iranian embassy in canberra and deliberately applied in advance for my visa, being upfront that i was going to attend a university seminar, i had been invited by an iranian university, and gave them every opportunity to google my name and check my background. i didn t declare that my ex husband had an israeli passport, but i didn t believe that they would find that out. but also, i didn t believe it was relevant. i m not an israeli citizen.