There are a number of foreign nationals, as well as dual nationals, whoa ther security forces are more paranoid about. And they're essentially held as bargaining chips for foriran to take concessions from some of these western countries or more adversarial states. Some factions within the aranian state actually do believe that some of these duel national people, like myself, i've been living in exile in fear of the security forces. It could be within iranian ranks, in the government. There there is probably a agent within theof government. But it seems like they're not catching the right ones, at least not fully because these missions go are conducted successfully.
Iran is entering its fifth decade of taking hostages. One who made it out tells his story.
Today’s show was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Paul Mounsey, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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