In the fourth episode “Lethal Dissent,” an investigation by The World and “On Spec Podcast” into Iran’s campaign of kidnappings and assassinations of critics abroad, Reporter Fariba Nawa goes to the city where the Iranian dissident poet Mohammad Shabani died. Nawa finds evidence that points towards his cause of his suspicious death.
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