The Iranian authorities revolve from the suspension of weapons with Israel to intensify the repression of internal security throughout the country with mass arrests, executions and military distribution, especially in the quiet Kurdish region, officials and activists say.
Within a few days of Israel, the raids, which begin on June 13, Iranian security forces began a campaign of universal arrests, which is accompanied by an intensified presence of the street based on control points, the sources informed CBC and Reuters.
One man in Tehran, who responded to the CBC News fee via WhatsApp, but did not give his name, said on Wednesday that security officers stop people in control pop-ups throughout the city and ask them to show phones and open the application for sending messages.
“Only one tweet or one post in the social network will take you if the state thinks that the content is sensitive,” he said.
Another man told CBC that he feels a “deep sense of fear” that Ayatollah Ali Chamenei and his regime could secure their survival and twist their anger inwards, as in the 1980s, with repression about their own people and mass executions.
Some in Israel and exiled opposition groups hoped that the military campaign, which was addressed to revolutionary guards and internal security forces, as well as nuclear places, would cause mass creation and overthrow of the Islamic Republic.
But Alam Saleh, talking to CBC from Tehran on Wednesday, said that he knew many Iranians who were critical of the regime and changed the tone in recent days, now gathering around the flag in the face of what they consider to be unpredictable and unjustified war.
“What was the meaning, what was Israel and the United States, in the bombing of Iran for 12 days?” Saleh said.
“The only thing they have probably achieved is to do Iran, never trust these two countries again.”
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There were no significant protests against the authorities yet.
However, one senior Iranian security official and two other senior officials informed the issues of internal security, stated that the authorities focused on the threat of possible internal unrest, especially in Kurdish areas.
A senior security official was found that the revolutionary paramilitary units and paramilitary paramilitary units Basij were recognized and internal security.
The official said authorities were worried about Israeli agents, ethnic separatists and the folk organization of Iran Mujahsideen in Iran, which had previously issued attacks in Iran.
Activists in the country are low.
“We are now very cautious because there is a real fear that the regime can take advantage of this situation as an excuse,” said Reuters an activist for rights who was imprisoned during mass protests in 2022.
The activist said that he knew dozens of people who were called by the authorities and arrested or warned of all words of opposition.
Kurdish groups say they are the target
The Iranian group of HRNA rights said on Monday that from the beginning of the war she had been arrested 705 people on political charges or security.
Hrna said that many arrested were accused of spying to Israel.
The Iranian state media reported that three were made on Tuesday in Urmia, near the Turkish border, and the Iranian-Cuda rights group Hengaw said that everyone was Kurdish.
Iranian foreign and internal ministries did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
When people in Israel and Iran cleaned with raids before a stuffy suspension of weapons, many expressed doubts that the fragile room would last.
One of the officials informed about security, said that the troops were placed on the borders of Pakistan, Iraq and Azerbaijan to stop infiltration by what the official called terrorists.
The second official informed security, confirmed that hundreds were arrested.
Muslim minorities in Iran, mostly Sunnic Muslim Kurdish and Baluch, have long been a source of opposition to the Islamic Republic, resuscit from the rule of the Person -language, Shiite government in Tehran.
Three main Iranian Kurdish separatist fractions based in Iraq Kurdistan said that some of their activists and fighters were arrested and described extensive military movements and security by the Iranian authorities.
Ribaz Khalili from the Democratic Party of Iran Kurdistan (KDPI) said that the revolutionary units of guards arranged in schools in Iranian Kurdish provinces within three days of Israel's strikes begin and go home for suspicious and weapons.
The guards also undertook protective measures, evacuating the industrial zone near the barracks and closing the main roads for their own use in introducing meals to Kermanshah and Sanandaj, two main cities in the Kurdish region.
Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) staff, which gave it The name of the war From Fatma Ahmed said that the party counted over 500 opposition members detained in Kurdish provinces from the beginning of the raids.
Ahmed and an official from the Kurdish party of Komala, who spoke provided anonymity, both described control points set in Kurdish areas with physical search for people, as well as control of their phones and documents.