Revolutionary guards say suspects apprehended in northeastern Iran as supplies for making weapons are additionally seized.
Printed On 30 Aug 2025
Iran has arrested eight individuals suspected of trying to transmit the coordinates of delicate websites and particulars about senior army figures in the course of the nation’s 12-day war with Israel and the USA to the Israeli intelligence company Mossad, in accordance with its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
The IRGC launched a press release on Saturday alleging that the suspects had obtained specialised coaching from Mossad by way of on-line platforms.
It stated they had been apprehended in northeastern Iran earlier than finishing up their plans, and that supplies for making launchers, bombs, explosives and booby traps had been seized.
The information comes as state media reported earlier this month that Iranian police had arrested as many as 21,000 “suspects” in the course of the June battle, although they didn’t say what these individuals had been suspected of doing.
Following an Israeli army bombardment that started on June 13, killing prime army officers and scientists in addition to tons of of civilians, Iran retaliated with barrages of missiles on Israeli army websites, infrastructure and cities.
The US additionally carried out intensive strikes on Israel’s behalf on Iranian nuclear websites in the course of the battle, the worst blow to the Islamic republic since its Nineteen Eighties battle with Iraq.
Throughout the 12-day battle, Iranian safety forces started a campaign of widespread arrests accompanied by an intensified road presence based mostly round checkpoints and “public studies”.
Iranian residents had been known as upon to report on any people they thought had been performing suspiciously in the course of the battle that led to a US and Qatar-brokered ceasefire.
Iran has executed at the very least eight individuals in latest months, together with nuclear scientist Rouzbeh Vadi, hanged on August 9 for passing data to Israel about one other scientist who was killed in Israeli air strikes.
Human rights teams say Iran makes use of espionage prices and fast-tracked executions as instruments for broader political repression.
The Israel-US-Iran battle has additionally led to an accelerated fee of deportations for Afghan refugees and migrants believed to be illegally in Iran, with assist businesses reporting that native authorities have additionally accused some Afghan nationals of spying for Israel.
“Legislation enforcement rounded up 2,774 unlawful migrants and found 30 particular safety instances by inspecting their telephones. [A total of] 261 suspects of espionage and 172 individuals accused of unauthorised filming had been additionally arrested,” police spokesperson Saeed Montazerolmahdi stated earlier this month.
Montazerolmahdi didn’t specify what number of of these arrested had since been launched.
He added that Iran’s police dealt with greater than 5,700 instances of cybercrimes corresponding to on-line fraud and unauthorised withdrawals in the course of the battle, which he stated had turned “our on-line world into an essential battlefront”.
