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August 26, 2021

By Turning a Blind Eye to Iran’s Assassination of Dissidents, the West Has Made the World Less Safe

The ayatollahs have few qualms about murdering their enemies abroad.

In the summer of 2019, two FBI agents showed up at Roya Hakakian’s door to inform her that she was likely the target of a plot by the Islamic Republic’s operatives in the U.S. Like Masih Alinejad, whom the ayatollahs’ thugs had recently been planning to kidnap from her Brooklyn home, Hakakian is an Iranian-born American citizen who writes frequently of the clerical regime’s abuses. Hakakian was initially skeptical, but knew all to well that Tehran has few qualms about punishing its critics abroad:

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