Iran waging campaign to abduct dissidents abroad
Tehran is waging a campaign to abduct Iranian dissidents living overseas, take them back to Iran and execute them, Japanese magazine Sentaku reported.
A 44-year-old political activist and journalist was targeted for abduction in the US, where she lives, Sentaku reported.
She wrote articles accusing the Iranian regime of corruption, lies and hypocrisy. The abduction plan was discovered by US authorities and five suspects have been indicted.
However, not all Iranian exiles are so lucky. Ruhora Zham, the son of a religious leader who contributed to the 1979 revolution, moved to France after he was imprisoned for participating in an anti-regime demonstration in 2009. He established an anti-regime TV station in France that had more than a million viewers.
An Iranian spy contacted him, deceiving him about an interview with the leader of a Shiite sect. Zham was detained and sent back to Iran. His execution was announced in December 2020.
There are many cases of harassment and even murder of Iranian exiles. An anti-regime journalist living in the US was quoted as saying that Tehran “refrained from activities overseas for a while, but completely restored their operations in recent years.”
She wrote articles accusing the Iranian regime of corruption, lies and hypocrisy. The abduction plan was discovered by US authorities and five suspects have been indicted.
However, not all Iranian exiles are so lucky. Ruhora Zham, the son of a religious leader who contributed to the 1979 revolution, moved to France after he was imprisoned for participating in an anti-regime demonstration in 2009. He established an anti-regime TV station in France that had more than a million viewers.
An Iranian spy contacted him, deceiving him about an interview with the leader of a Shiite sect. Zham was detained and sent back to Iran. His execution was announced in December 2020.
There are many cases of harassment and even murder of Iranian exiles. An anti-regime journalist living in the US was quoted as saying that Tehran “refrained from activities overseas for a while, but completely restored their operations in recent years.”
