Iran’s IRGC arrests almost 240 suspects in raids across two provinces

The IRGC has announced that its officials have arrested nearly 240 people in operations in two provinces, Kurdistan and Kermanshah, Iran’s semiofficial Mehr news agency reports.

In Kurdistan province, the IRGC claimed to have arrested 11 people while also killing one member of a Kurdish armed group.

IRGC forces also seized a cache of arms and ammunition. Nearly 70 others were arrested in separate raids, Mehr reports.

In Kermanshah province, the IRGC arrested 155 people, who, it said, belonged to “counter-revolutionary groups”, including four spies alleged to be associated with Israel’s Mossad.

In Tehran, the police announced the arrest of an individual accused of collecting and sharing “documentation of missile strike points to hostile networks”.

Iran says it has hanged what it described as an agent working for Israel who was accused of acts of sabotage during nationwide protests in January, the country’s semiofficial Tasnim news agency reports.

The condemned man, identified as Irfan Kayani, was accused of “creating terror” and was hanged earlier today after the Supreme Court confirmed the verdict, Tasnim reports.

Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport resumed some international flights on Saturday morning, Iran’s semiofficial Mehr news agency reports. 

The initial passenger flights out of Tehran headed to Muscat, Istanbul and Medina in Saudi Arabia, according to the report.

Mashhad airport, which serves the country’s second city in the far northeast, reopened earlier this week.