Within days of the Israeli airstrike that started on June 13, Iranian safety forces launched a marketing campaign of widespread arrests with the presence of a fierce avenue primarily based round checkpoints, officers and activists mentioned.
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Israel and a few exiled opposition teams hoped that navy campaigns focusing on revolutionary safety guards, inside safety forces and nuclear energy crops would set off mass rebellion and overthrow of the Islamic Republic.
Innovative safety guards and Basij paramilitary forces had been on alert and mentioned inside safety was the principle focus.
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A Tehran rights activist who was jailed throughout a large 2022 protest mentioned:
Iranian rights group HRNA mentioned Monday it recorded 705 arrests on political or safety costs for the reason that begin of the battle.
Many of the arrested folks have been accused of spying for Israel, HRNA mentioned. Iranian provincial media reported that the three had been executed in Urmia close to the Turkish border on Tuesday, and Iranian-Kurdish rights group Hengow mentioned they had been all Kurdish.
Iran’s Foreign and Interior Ministry didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
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Checkpoints and search
One safety guard mentioned that safety guards had been deployed on the borders of Pakistan, Iraq and Azerbaijan, stopping penetration into what officers known as terrorists. Other safety officers confirmed that tons of of individuals had been arrested.
Iran’s predominantly Sunni Muslim Kurds and Baluch minorities have lengthy been the supply of opposition to the Islamic Republic, and are opposite to Tehran’s Persian-speaking Shiite authorities.
Security guards are standing on the street on June 24, 2025, early within the ceasefire in Tehran, Iran. Reuters.kl/
Ribaz Kaliri of Iran’s Kurdistan Democrat (KDPI) mentioned a revolutionary safety unit was deployed to varsities in Iran’s Kurdish province after leaving home-to-home for suspects and weapons inside three days of the Israeli strike.
Security guards have additionally taken safeguards, evacuating industrial areas close to the barracks and shutting main roads to carry reinforcements to 2 main cities within the Kurdish area, Karmanshah and Sanandazi.
A senior official at Kurdistan’s Free Life Party (PJAK) that gave Fatma Ahmed the title, mentioned that greater than 500 opposition members have counted greater than 500 opposition members detained in Kurdish province for the reason that airstrikes started.
Speaking on situation of anonymity with Ahmed, Kurdish Komara officers defined that each had been arrange within the Kurdish area with bodily searches of individuals and checking cell phones and paperwork.