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How Iran draws citizens into political surveillance

By Arash Beidollahkhani, Research Fellow at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester

Authoritarian governments have long drawn ordinary citizens into political surveillance. Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union encouraged denunciations. East Germany’s secret police service, the Stasi, embedded informants in workplaces and neighbourhoods.

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