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![Since its founding in 1979, the Islamic Republic has been known for kidnapping and killing its critics at home. But the regime has also become notorious for chasing down its dissidents abroad, from the US to France to the Netherlands. Iran is keenly aware at all times that a single person can spark a revolution — after all, the charismatic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was once an exile in France, before leading the modern state of Iran as we now know it. For formal naval officer Mohammad Rezaie, like many Iranian dissidents fleeing their country, the first step was crossing the border into Turkey. But staying in Turkey is dangerous — the Iranian regime has reach and connections in that country that it does not elsewhere. Nevertheless, Turkey still functions as an opposition haven, hosting the largest number of migrants — about 3.2 million, including thousands of asylum-seekers waiting for resettlement to a third country. Timur Soykan, a Turkish investigative journalist who authored a book about a drug lord conspiring with Iran to kidnap and kill targets on Turkish soil, says the Islamic Republic recruits local criminals with connections inside the Turkish government. “If you have a connection within the government … you can get into the guarded security systems. From there, you can find out where the person’s phone signal is coming from and use the plate number recognition system — what [freeway] exits they used, where they came from, where they’re going, if they’ve left the country.” There’s also a facial recognition system that finds people, Soykan says. With a photo of an escaped dissident, the regime’s hired help can retrieve an address and go directly to the dissident’s home. The Iranian regime can appropriate all of the Turkish police’s technological resources to capture its opponents. The surveillance dragnet deployed by Iran and the viciousness of its tactics are well documented through a long history of kidnappings, renditions, and assassinations. You can read more from Fariba Nawa in The Verge's collaboration with The World at the link in our bio. Illustrations by Jovana Mugosa Design by Cath Virginia](/video/cover/7528122544889662733.webp)