They thought they'd be safe in France from the long arm of Iranian repression. Then the threatening phone calls from strangers began.
She called her mother’s phone in late December, but the person on the other end was a man whose voice she didn’t recognize. Her parents were inside the offices of Iran’s intelligence service in Tehran. And she was in the French capital, Paris, where she lives. Kamari knew that the government agents who had been intimidating her family for months wanted only one thing: to speak directly to her about her activism abroad.
“I told them, please don’t answer these calls, and please don’t go there,” she said of her conversation with her parents at the time. “But unfortunately, because these threats got worse and worse and because my parents are older, I could not expect them to listen to me and not go. I understood they are under pressure, and it might happen.” And it did happen.
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