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Iran Projects Unity to the World While Pursuing a Crackdown at Home
The New York Times • • world
Key Points:
- As Iran prepares for the funeral of its slain supreme leader, security forces continue a crackdown on dissidents and civil society leaders.
- On Wednesday, Iranian security forces arrested environmentalists Houman Jokar and Sepideh Kashani, along with Kashani's sister Sima, confiscating their electronic devices.
- No charges have been disclosed, and the arrested activists have had limited contact with their families, according to their lawyer Hojjat Kermani.
- The arrests are part of a broader crackdown involving over 6,000 detentions since the start of the U.S.-Israeli conflict on February 28, as reported by Amnesty International.
- Jokar and Kashani were members of the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation, known for efforts to protect Iran’s endangered Asiatic cheetah population.
