Iranian authorities have arrested four foreigners of undisclosed nationalities for "participation in riots," state television
said Monday.
"These individuals were apprehended during a raid on their hideout" in Tehran province, national television said, without specifying the date of the arrests.
"During a search of one suspect’s bag, four homemade stun grenades, used during the riots and unrest in the area, were discovered," it added.
Thousands of Iranians are believed to have been killed in a crackdown on anti-government protests last month. Iran’s authorities blame foreign countries for fomenting the violence, the worst domestic unrest since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The authorities have been announcing daily arrests of suspected protest ringleaders. The US-based rights group HRANA said on Monday that nearly 50,000 people have so far been arrested.
Iranian authorities accuse Israel and the United States of having had a hand in "riots."
NGOs based abroad have accused the security forces of intentionally targeting protesters in a movement that rocked the Islamic Theocratic
Republicin January.
On January 24, the official IRNA news agency reported that two foreigners had been arrested in western Iran.
Activists and some Western governments accuse 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 spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
of using a deliberate strategy of hostage-taking to extract concessions from the West.