Ayatollah?

I have a friend who's originally coming from Iran, and he hasn't been back to visit for almost three decades for political reasons. Now, however, he's thinking of going back to visit his elderly mother, and I was asking whether it is safe.

Me: "I don't wanna get a telephone call from a prison in Teheran".

Him: "Don't worry, they don't have telephones in prison".

Yeah right, makes me feel a whole lot better.