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Source: https://jcpa.org/in-iran-a-wave-of-arrests-of-the-regimes-sharpest-critics/
In Iran: A Wave of Arrests of the Regime's Sharpest Critics
(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Lt.-Col. (ret.) Michael Segall - After changes in the top leadership of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Organization, the regime is stepping up its repression of its critics. Among those arrested was Mostafa Tajzadeh, former deputy interior minister in President Hatami's government who was previously arrested in 2009 and incarcerated for seven years in Tehran's infamous Evin Prison for his involvement in the Green Revolution. Others arrested included internationally renowned filmmakers Mohammad Rasoulof and Mostafa Al-e-Ahmad, who issued a call (signed by 70 other Iranian filmmakers and movie-industry employees) for members of Iran's security services to refrain from assailing citizens demonstrating in the city of Abadan over a building collapse on May 23, 2022, that killed 41 people.