Vice Contributor Recalls Low Point of Undercover Iran Mission

Last summer, the anonymously bylined male reporter traveled to Iran on a tourist visa; he took all sorts of precautions before and during his visit. However, at one point after journeying north from Tehran to Tabriz with a photographer and handler, the trio were hauled away to a private room for interrogation while attending a soccer match. It was touch-and-go, all the way through:

In my stupidity, I still had two or three issues of Charlie Hebdo in my bag, thinking I would read them before leaving them somewhere on a plane.