 On May 7, 2007, she was told to report to the Ministry of Intelligence.Upon her arrival there the next morning, she was taken into custody and driven to Tehran's Evin Prison.She was one of four dual U.S.-Iranian citizen to be detained by the Iranian government under similar circumstances in 2007, the others being Radio Farda correspondent Parnaz Azima, Ali Shakeri of the Center for Citizen Peacebuilding at the University of California at Irvine, and Kian Tajbakhsh, an Iranian American consultant for the Open Society Institute.