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Iranwire – Three weeks after the start of nationwide protests in Iran, information received by IranWire indicates that several Baha’i citizens have been arrested in multiple cities across the country.
According to information obtained by IranWire, at least five Baha’i citizens have been detained in Mashhad, three in Kerman, two in Karaj, three in Isfahan, and one in Yazd.
As of the time of this report, no precise information is available regarding the legal status of their cases or their current places of detention.
The arrests come as Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence issued a statement on Saturday, January 17, claiming it had identified a “32-member network of the Baha’i spy cult.”
The ministry alleged that the network was involved in what it described as “riots and acts of destruction.”
According to the statement, the network was active in the provinces of Tehran, Kerman, Khorasan Razavi, Yazd, Sistan and Baluchestan, Alborz, Kermanshah, and Mazandaran.
The ministry claimed that “12 core elements have been arrested and 13 others have been summoned.”
IranWire has previously reported on the arrests of Moein Mohammadi in Yazd and Navid Irani in Mashhad.
