Plainclothes security forces launched a campaign of widespread arrests against anti-regime protesters, accompanied by an intensified street presence based around checkpoints. Plainclothes Iranian ...

Iranian security forces have reportedly arrested thousands, including children, in a bid to suppress recent protests, marking the deadliest unrest since 1979.

In Iran, mass arrests by plainclothes security forces aim to crush the gravest protests since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Unofficial detention sites and internet blackouts punctuate the crackdown, ...

Plainclothes Iranian security forces have rounded up thousands of people in a campaign of mass arrests and intimidation to deter further protests after crushing the bloodiest unrest since the 1979 ...