Ms. Claren, her mother, Nahid Taghavi, is an architect and has German and Iranian citizenship.

She was arrested in Tehran in October 2020, jailed in the notorious Evin prison and sentenced to 10 years in prison in August 2021 for allegedly belonging to an "illegal group".

How is she at the moment?

Fridtjof Küchemann

Editor in the Feuilleton.

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Mariam Claren: She recently jokingly said, "I'm too expensive to die in prison." As soon as she has even a cough, she goes to the infirmary.

If she is not allowed to have a back operation with leave from prison, then it is to put pressure on Germany.

The mental situation of the prisoners plays no role.

They just can't die.

Ms. Ghaderi, your husband Kamran Ghaderi has Austrian and Iranian citizenship.

When he traveled to Iran on business in January 2016, he was arrested and sentenced to ten years in prison six months later for alleged "collaboration with hostile states against the Islamic Republic".

He is also in Evin prison.

How is he?

Harika Ghaderi: Kamran never had problems with blood pressure.

But in prison, for the first three months, it was so high that they couldn't even lower it with medication.

They tortured him, then they gave him medicine.

When the blood pressure returned to normal, they started torturing me again.

for months.

But what is Austria doing about it?

How can you greet an Iranian delegation in Austria with a smile?

It's been said that painkillers are plentiful.

M.C.: To immobilize.

This is also confirmed by other relatives of detainees.

I believe that a great many prisoners are dependent.

Many have gained weight in detention.

You're bloated from cortisone.

Many have liver and stomach damage.

My mother went to prison as a healthy, athletic woman.

When she comes out she will have severe high blood pressure, diabetes, a quadruple herniated disc, Long-Covid, trouble sleeping - and those are just the things I know about.

H.G.: After having to sleep on the floor for years, Kamran had incidents that were then operated on.

In the beginning I was against the surgeries because he can become paralyzed without qualified follow-up treatment.

Then his pain was so severe that he could not stand up for a month.

It wasn't possible without painkillers.

He didn't know the names of many, like taking thirty-five pills a day.

How do you keep in touch?

M. C.: In the normal wing of the prison, women with a phone card were allowed to make ten-minute calls three times a week until a month ago.

Now it has mercifully been increased to five times a week.

H. G.: My husband was in the high-security department for a year and a half and was not allowed to make international calls from there.

After about a year he was allowed to call his mother in Iran once a week.

He was allowed to call me from the normal wing of the prison.

Now we can talk on the phone every day.

What do you talk about on such an occasion?

M. C.: My mother was in the security wing for seven months, when the interrogator stands by and demands: "You don't say anything except that you're alive." Even in the normal wing, all conversations are recorded.

Sometimes I say things I want them to hear.

Sometimes I think: It's worth it.

But I don't say a lot, so that my mother won't be punished for it.

H. G.: I deliberately only talk to Kamran about the children, about school, everyday things.

If I don't tell him about my meetings at the State Department or interviews with newspapers, he can't be blamed either.

In 2018, Trump unilaterally withdrew from the nuclear deal with Iran.

Since Biden has been President of the United States, negotiations have resumed in Vienna.

Shortly before the conclusion, the talks were interrupted in March.

What role do they play for you and your loved ones?