“..their cases point to a disturbing trend: People with connections to the West, particularly scholars, are being fingered as part of a vast conspiracy aimed at toppling the regime. Countless other Iranians, some of them dual nationals but many of them not, have also had their passports seized. Iran’s civil society–women’s rights activists, unionists, students, journalists–has been the larger casualty of this crackdown.”

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