[kabar]

Unpredictable is in the eyes of the beholder. The woman had lived in Iran for 6 years. The professor had been visiting her aged mother for years. The regime just picks out one of these many thousands of targets of opportunity when it suits them. The State Department has been warning these Iranian-American dual citizens about the inherent dangers and demonstrated results, but it is up to each person to weigh the risks versus the benefits. The only thing unpredictable is who will be selected, not the fact that the Iranian regime does it.

What you describe in Iran could be the case in any other repressive totalitarian regime. There is no such thing as the rule of law and individual rights. I lived in Communist Poland for two years. Things were "unpredictable" there as well.

[nuconvert]

“Unpredictable is in the eyes of the beholder.”

No, it’s in the eyes of every Iranian walking the streets in Iran.

“What you describe in Iran could be the case in any other repressive totalitarian regime. There is no such thing as the rule of law and individual rights. I lived in Communist Poland for two years. Things were “unpredictable” there as well.”

I didn’t realize this was a contest, but whether Iran is in fact unpredictable or not. They are. Whether other countries are or not is irrelevant.