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Report: Iran Uses War to Intensify Deadly Crackdown on Dissent
Newser • • world
Key Points:
- A Reuters investigation reveals that Iran's government is intensifying repression against its own citizens amid economic protests, with thousands jailed and at least 34 protesters executed in recent months.
- The crackdown involves fast-track death sentences, closed trials, and televised confessions, aimed at intimidating the public through coordinated efforts by security forces, judges, and state media.
- Iranian dissidents abroad face harassment including threats to their relatives in Iran, asset seizures, frozen bank accounts, canceled passports, and warnings of kidnapping.
- The investigation portrays Iran as operating a wartime security state that uses both legal and extralegal measures to suppress dissent domestically and internationally.
