{"id":15914,"date":"2009-12-03T13:47:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T18:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15914"},"modified":"2009-12-03T13:47:11","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T18:47:11","slug":"iran-cracks-down-on-its-citizens-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15914","title":{"rendered":"Iran cracks down on it’s citizens abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wall Street Journal<\/a> (link might require subscription) writes that the Islamic Republic’s regime now reaches outside it’s borders to stifle dissent;<\/p>\n

Interviews with roughly 90 ordinary Iranians abroad — college students, housewives, doctors, lawyers, businesspeople — in New York, London, Dubai, Sweden, Los Angeles and other places indicate that people who criticize Iran’s regime online or in public demonstrations are facing threats intended to silence them.<\/p>\n

Although it wasn’t possible to independently verify their claims, interviewees provided consistently similar descriptions of harassment techniques world-wide. Most asked that their full names not be published.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Before this past summer, “If anyone asked me, ‘Does the government threaten Iranians abroad or their families at home,’ I would say, ‘Not at all,'” says Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent lawyer inside Iran. “But now the cases are too many to count. Every day I get phone calls and visits from people who are being harassed and threatened” because of relatives’ activities abroad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But these are the guys we’re supposed to negotiate with. Time and again, they’ve flaunted international law, made threats against their neighbors, been found guilty of aiding terrorists worldwide. They gun down their own citizens on the street and now they spy on them when they’re outside the country.<\/p>\n

But George Bush is evil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Wall Street Journal (link might require subscription) writes that the Islamic Republic’s regime now reaches … Iran cracks down on it’s citizens abroad<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}