Iranian-British journalist: Iran targeting opposition abroad

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00:00Seema, thank you so much for your insights into that.

00:04But I just want to ask you briefly, before I let you go,

00:08there was a terrifying plot to kill you and your colleague

00:12while both of you were working for an Iranian news channel based in London.

00:18Since these recent attacks, how do you feel?

00:22Do you feel safe within the UK as the threat has increased?

00:30Well, no, I don't feel safe because the IRGC's agents, they're everywhere.

00:38They have been threatening journalists.

00:40They have been threatening many, many dissidents outside of Iran,

00:45at the heart of Europe, at the heart of UK, anywhere.

00:49It's not only me.

00:50My story came up because there was credible evidence of what they were doing.

00:56I'm lucky to be alive because one of the people involved was a double agent.

01:02If that wasn't the case, I have been killed a long time ago.

01:05My only saying was that I was presenting a show which was extremely popular.

01:10And of course, I mean, we were exposing what is happening inside Iran

01:13in terms of human rights, in terms of the political activities of the government.

01:18So, yes, at the moment, I know that there is another presenter

01:23whose family has been taken hostage by the Islamic Republic.

01:29Her mother, her father and her brother have been taken away from their home

01:33and the father was forced to call her and say that, resign from your job.

01:37Her mother, her mother, her government, that has got hold up for her and say that her father

01:53is at home to their homes, in continuedmä Parceci除ke her son

01:59in the area so that for their investors who don't take care of their jobs.