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Iran says dual citizen arrested for ‘attempted rioting’ on protest anniversary
2023-09-17
[IsraelTimes] IRGC claims man held ’several smartphones and dollars of significant value’; second nationality of detainee unclear

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps said Saturday they arrested a man with dual citizenship on allegations of "attempted rioting and to cause disruptions" in the city of Karaj, west of the capital Tehran.

The suspect was found to be in possession of "several smartphones and dollars of significant value," the IRGC said, according to a report by the semi-official Tasnim news agency.

It was unclear which nationality aside from Iranian the suspect held. Several capitals have accused Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
of practicing "hostage diplomacy" — arresting Western nationals to obtain concessions such as the release of detained Iranians abroad.

Iran has upped security and conducted a wave of arrests in the country’s Kurdish region on suspicion of "planning to create chaos" and producing content to serve "hostile media" on the anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini.

The 22-year-old Iranian Kurd died a few days after her arrest by inquisitors religious police for allegedly violating the strict dress code for women in force since shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Her family says she died from a blow to the head but this is disputed by Iranian authorities.

Anger over her death rapidly expanded into weeks of taboo-breaking protests which saw women tearing off their mandatory headscarves in an open challenge to the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s system of government under Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...
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