Although not surprised, I am outraged by the serial arrests of Iranian-American scholars in Tehran. They have all been officially or unofficially charged as agents of a "soft collapse" mission led by the US. Security forces have also called them "Velvet Agents", in reference to the "velvet revolutions" which occurred in Georgia and Ukraine in 2003 and 2004.
The irony is that, to date, Iran's Intelligence Service or Judiciary forces have not been able to drum up one...
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