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During its 12-day war with Israel in June, Iran arrested about 21,000 people in a sweeping security crackdown
2025-08-13
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

The Times of Israel adds:
Iranian police arrested as many as 21,000 "suspects" during the country’s 12-day war with Israel in June, a law enforcement spokesperson said, according to state media.

Following Israeli air strikes on Iranian nuclear and military facilities that began on June 13, Iranian security forces began a campaign of widespread arrests accompanied by an intensified street presence based on checkpoints and "public reports" whereby citizens were called upon to report on any individuals they thought were acting suspiciously.

"There was a 41% increase in calls by the public, which led to the arrest of 21,000 suspects during the 12-day war," police spokesperson Saeid Montazerolmahdi says. He does not say what those arrested were suspected of, but Tehran has spoken before of people passing on information that may have helped direct the Israeli attacks.

The Israel-Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
conflict has also led to an accelerated rate of deportation of Afghan migrants colonists believed to be illegally in Iran, with aid agencies reporting that local authorities had also accused some Afghan nationals of spying for Israel.

"Law enforcement rounded up 2,774 illegal migrants colonists and discovered 30 special security cases by examining their phones. 261 suspects of espionage and 172 people accused of unauthorized filming were also arrested," the spokesperson says.

Montazerolmahdi does not specify how many of those arrested have since been released.

He adds that Iran’s police handled more than 5,700 cases of cyber crimes such as online fraud and unauthorized withdrawals during the war, which he says had turned "cyberspace into an important battlefront."
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