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Tehran's Assassination Playbook
(Wall Street Journal) Editorial - As Iran cracks down on mass protests at home, the Islamist regime continues to strike at dissidents who criticize it from exile abroad. Iranian opposition figure Massoud Molavi, who ran a social-media channel on the Telegram messaging service and published allegations of corruption against regime elites, was gunned down in Istanbul last month. Extraterritorial murders are a staple of Tehran's strategy of spreading revolution. In 2018 European officials thwarted a bomb plot against Iranian dissidents in France. Later that year Danish officials narrowly prevented the assassination of an opposition figure in Denmark. Two Dutch citizens of Iranian descent were assassinated in the Netherlands in recent years.