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Habib Chaab, an Iranian opposition leader in exile in Sweden, was lured by a female Iranian agent to Istanbul. There he was abducted, drugged, and driven in a van more than 1,000 miles east across Turkey and smuggled into Iran, in a complex operation orchestrated by Iranian intelligence. He is the latest in a string of at least three high-profile Iranian dissidents who returned to the region from the United States or Europe, only to be abducted beyond Iran’s borders, spirited back into the country, and put on state TV to confess to “crimes.” Why We Wrote This Political leadership requires theater. Especially when deterrence is the aim, that can include show trials, and spectacles to engineer social compliance have been a factor in Iran since antiquity. ....