Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 13 Some 205 people have been arrested in Tehran since a new wave of crackdown on trouble-makers was launched by Irans State Security Forces and Judiciary, the countrys Minister of Justice announced on Tuesday. Iran Focus
Tehran, Iran, Sep. 13 Some 205 people have been arrested in Tehran since a new wave of crackdown on trouble-makers was launched by Irans State Security Forces and Judiciary, the countrys Minister of Justice announced on Tuesday.
We are looking to increase national security, Jamal Karimi-Rad, who is also Irans judiciary spokesman, told reporters during his weekly press conference.
The new crackdown, termed the plan to tackle trouble-makers, was ordered by Irans hard-line government and the semi-official daily Jomhouri Islami wrote in its Tuesday edition that Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had ordered the head of the countrys judiciary to deal decisively with elements creating disruption in society and sentence them to the most severe punishment that God has prescribed.
Karimi-Rad said that the crackdown would continue despite a decision originally for the plan to last for 20 days.
Separately, a spokesman for Tehrans police force announced that 42 trouble-makers had been arrested in the Iranian capital on Tuesday.
Authorities routinely refer to anti-government activists or ordinary people deemed to act in un-Islamic ways as trouble-makers.
