Jake Hart
- Role
- Screenwriter and family friend, interviewed by AP
- Statement date
"World War II-level thinking"
Source and context
Interview
About this source
AP original reporting and direct interviews, updated May 19 at 1:40 p.m. EDT. NewsNation republication is existing source 364; these are the same report, not independent corroboration. This record restores original-source provenance and distinct interview locators. Statements remain attributed; the exact interview times are unknown.
Before the quotation
In AP’s section on friends’ responses, Hart described his relationship with the family and their experiences.
After the quotation
The quoted fragment is part of Hart’s historical comparison, not a legal finding or an institutional position. The source publication date is used because the exact interview or utterance date is not separately verified.
How this statement is classified
The speaker explicitly criticizes the action or its effects in the surrounding directly attributed statement.
- Recorded on
- Published here
- People and groups discussed
- Maryam Tahmasebi, Seyed Eissa Hashemi
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