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A Propos - Iran Turns to Internal Crackdown in Wake of 12-Day War
IRAN, JUN 25 – Iranian authorities have arrested over 700 individuals and executed six on espionage charges, targeting Kurdish and Baluch minorities amid heightened security following a 12-day war with Israel.
- Iran intensified a security crackdown involving arrests and executions targeting suspected Israeli intelligence collaborators following a 12-day war starting June 13.
- The crackdown followed Israel's airstrikes that led to high-profile assassinations and left Iranian authorities focused on internal unrest, especially in Kurdish regions.
- Security forces in Tehran and Kurdish areas set up checkpoints, stopped citizens to inspect phones, detained hundreds including journalists, activists, and family members of dissidents.
- Iran executed three individuals accused of spying for Israel during the conflict and three more one day after the ceasefire, while state media aired alleged confessions.
- Human rights groups and observers expressed concerns these actions echo past mass suppressions, highlighting Iran’s ongoing repression amid claims of fighting foreign intelligence threats.
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The Iranian regime arrested hundreds of people on suspicion of espionage and other aid to Israel during the recent air war. Arrests are reported in Tehran, Shiraz, Isfahan and the Kurdish region in the west. Human rights groups speak of more than 700 arrests. Iranian state media reported three executions earlier this week. Other sources speak of far more than three deaths and report that people were executed without trial. “Our family members fl…
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Iran conducts waves of arrests & executions in wake of Israel conflict, activists fear crackdown on dissenters
While Iran is recovering from the 12-day-long conflict with Israel, the country's regime has been arresting and executing its citizens on charges of feeding information to Israeli intelligence. However, activists share a different side of the story
A propos - Iran turns to internal crackdown in wake of 12-day war
While it holds a ceasefire with Israel, Iran is stepping up an internal crackdown with mass arrests, executions and military deployments, officials and activists said. Within days of Israel's airstrikes beginning on June 13, Iranian security forces started a campaign of widespread arrests accompanied by an intensified street presence based around checkpoints. FRANCE 24 speaks to Hussein Baoumi, deputy regional director for the Middle East and No…
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