This article from yesterday's Wall Street Journal discusses the Iranian regime's efforts to disrupt opposition from the Iranian diaspora. Iranian security forces inside Iran are arresting relatives of exiled dissidents in order to stop them criticizing the regime of Twitter and Facebook. It seems amazing that the secret police would be monitoring Twitter and Facebook in order to find more people to persecute, but it appears to be happening.
Here's the article:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125978649644673331.html
Sometimes truth is at least as strange as fiction!
The facts in Old Blood regarding Iranian agents attempting to penetrate exile groups directly come from articles such as this one, which documents a Swedish situation:
An annual report recently published by the Swedish security service (Sapo) mentions the expulsion of a spy who had been working as an embassy advisor in Sweden, thus uncovering a part of the Iranian regime intelligence services plots against Iranian dissidents and refugees residing in Sweden. The report refers to gathering of information and identifying regime opponents, impeding opposition activities through threats and bribes, spreading misinformation, propaganda, and conducting a demonizing campaign against the opposition, working to diminish trust toward regime opponents, infiltrating their ranks, and coercing refugees into cooperation with the regime’s intelligence services by making threats about imprisoning and torturing their family members still living inside Iran.
And Sweden is hardly the top concentration if the Iranian diaspora...
The whole article is here:
http://www.globalpolitician.com/25622-europe-iran-spies
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