{"id":244563,"date":"2025-05-16T18:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/bbc-eye-investigates-attacks-against-critics-of-the-iranian-regime-on-foreign-soil-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T18:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T17:00:17","slug":"bbc-eye-investigates-attacks-against-critics-of-the-iranian-regime-on-foreign-soil-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/bbc-eye-investigates-attacks-against-critics-of-the-iranian-regime-on-foreign-soil-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Eye investigates attacks against critics of the Iranian regime on foreign soil | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/cYzgGsjuAdA\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"BBC Eye investigates attacks against critics of the Iranian regime on foreign soil | BBC News\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cYzgGsjuAdA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Recent events in the Middle East have shown Iran is prepared to attack its enemies far beyond its borders. <\/p>\n<p>Through direct strikes on Israel or via the regime\u2019s network of proxies &#8211; what Tehran calls it\u2019s \u2018axis of resistance\u2019. <\/p>\n<p>But further afield, the regime is also waging a clandestine conflict &#8211; targeting individuals it sees as enemies of the state. <\/p>\n<p>Over the past three years, Western intelligence services say there has been a surge in these lethal operations.  <\/p>\n<p>The BBC World Service\u2019s Jiyar Gol has been investigating the growing number of Iranian backed assassination plots and tracing the criminal networks working on behalf of the regime.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the full BBC Eye documentary &#8211; Iran: Murder for hire, on BBC iPlayer or BBC World Service YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent events in the Middle East have shown Iran is prepared to attack its enemies far beyond its borders. 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But further afield, the regime is also waging a clandestine conflict &#8211; targeting individuals it sees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":244564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128810],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-244563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bbc-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BBC Eye investigates attacks against critics of the Iranian regime on foreign soil | BBC News | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch BBC Eye investigates attacks against critics of the Iranian regime on foreign soil | BBC News for free, here on News ISC. 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