Jon Stewart film drawing attention to Iranian dissident Maziar Bahari plight and others like him

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Maziar Bahari, center, Jon Stewart, right, and Gael Garcia Bernal, who plays Bahari, during the filming of Rosewater in 2013 in Amman, Jordan; the movie opened Nov. 14, Photo courtesy Open Road Films Maziar Bahari, seated, with Rabbi Benjamin Adler of Adath Israel Congregation, told the gathering he believes Iran’s threats to use nuclear program are

“Rosewater” is the first film directed by Jon Stewart, best known as host of “The Daily Show.” Stewart’s own screenplay adapts journalist Maziar Bahari’s memoir “Then They Came for Me: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival.” In 2009, the London-based Bahari, a contributor to the BBC and Newsweek, returned to his native Tehran