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U.S. and Israel Striking Iran Security Agencies that Helped Crush Protests
(New York Times) Erika Solomon - The U.S. and Israel have been striking Iran's police stations, detention centers and intelligence offices in addition to typical military targets, in an effort to weaken the country's security agencies. "A lot of people have a lot of bad memories of being held, beaten up, and persecuted in those buildings. Seeing them go up in smoke is part of the process of dismantling this oppressive police state," said Farzin Nadimi, a defense analyst at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. "We're targeting the Iranian security establishment, which also includes elements relevant to suppressing the Iranian people," said IDF Spokesman Lt.-Col. Nadav Shoshani. Among those targets, he said, was the Basij, a plainclothes militia affiliated with Iran's Revolutionary Guards.