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Ayatollah regime tortured me to say ‘I am a spy of the United States’: Journalist Batebi amid protests in Iran

Amid widespread anti-governmental protests continuing across Iran, which its current regime dismissed as "foreign-backed", Iranian-American journalist Ahmad Batebi on Thursday slammed the Islamic Republic for making such claims, saying that he was coerced to declare himself a spy for the United States and had to suffer from severe torture, solitary confinement and forced confessions at the hands of the "demonic" Ayatollah regime.