I talked with a taxi driver who’d been sentenced to death in Iran for political activities against the regime. His sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and he was transferred to a lower security prison from which he managed to escape and flee the country. He settled overseas and his wife joined him after some years later. Unfortunately his wife was homesick in their new home and missed her parents. The Iranian regime contacted his wife, told her all was forgiven and that she could return anytime she wanted. The reality was they believed if they could get her back they could then use access to his child as leverage to get him back in prison. Just because you’re not in Iran doesn’t mean you’re out of the regimes clutches.
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I talked with a taxi driver who’d been sentenced to death in Iran for political activities against the regime. His sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and he was transferred to a lower security prison from which he managed to escape and flee the country. He settled overseas and his wife joined him after some years later. Unfortunately his wife was homesick in their new home and missed her parents. The Iranian regime contacted his wife, told her all was forgiven and that she could return anytime she wanted. The reality was they believed if they could get her back they could then use access to his child as leverage to get him back in prison. Just because you’re not in Iran doesn’t mean you’re out of the regimes clutches.