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Over the past two years, Western intelligence officials are seeing what they describe

as a very dramatic increase in attempts by the government of Iran to launch assassinations

of its perceived political enemies overseas to orchestrate kidnapping plots to try and bring

dissidents back to Iran where they would face trial.

Shane Harris covers national security for the post.

Andy has been hearing from sources in the intelligence community that Iran has been escalating its

covert lethal operations around the world.

This kind of behavior is not necessarily new for the government of Iran.

They have launched these kinds of intelligence operations before, the tempo of it, and

the breadth of it in what the officials described is the kind of audacity of these plots has

them very alarmed because they see that tempo going up in the past two years.

Part of what makes it so concerning is the wide variety of people that are being targeted,

targets like John Bolton, the former national security advisor, prominent journalists, prominent

and active dissidents who are living overseas.

Andy for Iran succeeds.

Experts are worried about the potential consequences.

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