Iran Cracks Down on Dissidents After Humiliating 12-Day War

The Iranian theocracy was utterly humiliated by Israel and the United States during what President Donald Trump christened the “12-Day War,” and reports indicated this week that the regime is unsurprisingly taking out its frustrations on its own people. Reuters reported on Wednesday that Iran is staging an “internal security crackdown across the country with mass arrests, executions, and military deployments, particularly in the restive Kurdish region.”

The crackdown actually began shortly after Israel began striking Iran’s nuclear sites and military commanders on June 13, when the regime moved to quell potential uprisings. The regime’s strategy seems to have worked, as there have been no widespread protests or demands for a new government.

Some Iranians are unhappy with the regime’s dogged insistence on enriching uranium and its utter inability to defend itself against Israeli and U.S. airstrikes, but the regime has previously weathered much higher degrees of anger in the streets. Nothing close to the Green Revolution of 2009 or the “Women, Life, Freedom” uprising of 2022 has emerged since the conflict began.

Several Iranian security officials told Reuters the regime was most concerned about unrestin the Kurdish regions of Iran, which lie mostly along the Turkish border, so the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the brutal Basij militia were “put on alert.”  (Read More)