(Wall Street Journal) Farnaz Fassihi - The Iranian regime has been cracking down hard at home, and now it is extending that crackdown to Iranians abroad as well. In recent months, Iran has been conducting a campaign of harassing and intimidating members of its diaspora world-wide who criticize the regime in order to silence them. Dozens of individuals in the U.S. and Europe who criticized Iran on Facebook or Twitter said their relatives back in Iran were questioned or temporarily detained because of their postings.
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