Brother of Jason Rezaian Urges More Action on Anniversary of Imprisonment

"I don't think that anybody's done enough until he's out," Ali Rezaian tells NBC News' Richard Engel.

Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian has been held in Iran’s Evin prison for exactly one year now, and the Tehran bureau chief’s brother is, once again, publicly calling on the White House and other top U.S. officials to push harder to secure his release.

“You know, I don’t think that anybody’s done enough until he’s out,” Ali Rezaian told NBC News’ Richard Engel in an interview that aired on Wednesday’s edition of The Today Show.

“I know that they asked him a lot about his emails.

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