Iran Turns To Internal Crackdown In Wake Of 12-Day War

Istanbul/Baghdad, June 25 (Reuters) – IranianIAN officials a Armistice with Israel to intensify internal Authorities and activists, especially in the Kurdish region of the Kurdish region, mass arrests, executions and military distribution of the country’s country -wide security pressure.

Within a few days of Israel’s air strikes that started on June 13, IranianAuthorities and activists said that they launched a widespread arrest campaign with an intense street presence based on the control points of Ian security forces.

Some In Israel and exile Opposition groups He hoped the military campaign targeting revolutionary guards and internal Security forces and nuclear areas would lead to a mass uprising and the overthrow of the Islamic Republic.

Reuters speaking many IranianIANS Angry to the government For the policies they believe to have led to an Israeli attack, there has not yet been a sign of important protests against the authorities.

However, a senior IranianIAN Security official and two other senior officials internal Security problems said the authorities focused on the possible threat internal Unrest, especially in Kurdish regions.

Revolutionary Guard and Basij Paramiliter units were warned and internal The senior security official said that security is now the primary focus.

Authorities, authorities Israeli agents, ethnic separatists, and previously exiled opposition group that has previously carried out attacks, said the people of the people of the Mujahideen organization. Iranian.

Activists in the country are low.

“We are extremely cautious at the moment because there is a real concern that the regime can use this situation as an excuse,” he said. mass protests In 2022.

The activist said he knew dozens of people who were called by the authorities and who were arrested or warned against any opposition statement.

IranianIan Group HRNA said on Monday that 705 people have been arrested on political or security charges since the beginning of the war.

HRNA said many of those arrested were accused of espionage for Israel. IranianIan State Media reported that three of them were executed in Umia on Tuesday, near the Turkish border and IranianIan-Kurdish Rights Group Hengaw said they were all Kurds.

IranianForeign and Interior Ministries did not immediately respond to requests for comments.

One of the briefing authorities on security, said the troops were deployed to the borders of Pakistan, Iraq and Azerbaijan to stop infiltration by what the official called terrorists. Other authorized security was made on a briefing, hundreds of people were arrested.

IranianMostly Sunni Muslim Kurdish and Baluch minorities have long been opposition source To drag the Islamic Republic from the Persian -speaking Shiite Government in Tehran against the administration.

Three main IranianIAN Kurdish separatist fractions, some activists and fighters in Iraqi Kurdistan have been arrested and defined widespread military and security movements. IranianIAN officials.

Ribaz Khalili from the Democratic Party IranianIan Kurdistan (KDPI) said that revolutionary guard units were deployed in schools IranianWithin three days after Israel’s strikes, Kurdish states returned home for suspects and weapons and went home.

The guards also took preventive measures, evacuating an industrial zone near the barracks and closed the big ways for their use to reinforce the two major cities in the Kurdish region, Kermanshah and Sanandaj.

Fatma Ahmed’den Nom de Guerre’ye Kurdistan’s free life party (PJAK), a staff, the party’s air strikes have been detained in the Kurdish states since the beginning of more than 500 opposition members, he said.

An official from the Kurdish Komala Party, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, announced that both control points were established in Kurdish regions with the control of people’s physical searches and their phones and documents.

(Reporting by Parisa Hafesi and Ahmed Rasheed; Writing by Angus McDowall;