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Iran Focus
 Tehran, Iran, Sep. 17 – Over a thousand “hooligans” have been
arrested by Iran’s State Security Forces throughout the Iranian capital
since the start of a 20-day-long crackdown on dissent, the deputy commander
of the force said on Saturday.
“Since the launch of the plan to increase national security up till now,
more than 1,280 trouble-makers across Tehran
have been arrested”, Brig. Gen. Ali Abdollahi,
the country’s deputy police commander, told a state-run news agency.
Abdollahi warned that the crackdown would
continue after its 20-day intended period, and the police would continue to
arrest individuals suspected of acts of “hooliganism” or contrary to
national security.
“The judiciary has had good support from the State Security Forces in
carrying out the plan to increase national security”, the deputy police
chief said.
“In carrying out the plan to increase national security, the SSF was aided
by the Bassij in gathering intelligence about
where trouble-makers gather and in other tasks”, Abdollahi
added, referring to para-military vigilantes who
are loyal to Iran’s
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The Bassij were recently given police powers by the head of
the SSF.
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